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Aviation Historical Society of Australia Aviation Historical Society OF Australia ANNUAL subscription $A3. 00 Registered in Australia for transmission by post as a periodical ' VOLc VII No. 6 HOVEFiBER-DECEMBER iy66 On 2 November, the Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. Swartz) announced that the Commonwealth Government had approved a major' re-equipment programme that had been planned by Qantas, At a cost of 1^81 million, ten Boeing Model 707-338C aircraft would be ordered for delivery’ between January 196B and Feb­ ruary 1969, and 11 of the 13 Boeing Model 707-138B airliners owned by Qantas would be phased out of service and sold during the peribd (two of the latter model are on the market already). After the last of the latest order has been delivered, the airline will have R1 Boeing Model 707-338C's, A company spokesman said that advantages will be gained from the greater overall capacity, and from improved pilot utilisation and spares stocking arising from the "single-type" • fleet, Qantas will finance the purchases from it? own funds and overseas loans that will be raised by the Government; sale of the older-model types will help to offset the cost of the new aircraft. On 24 November, Qantas announced that daily round-the-world services will be operated through Melbourne, Vic,, when the new international airport at Tullamarine is opened in 1968, A ^7,5 million ’base for the airlipe will be ’built at the airport and present plans call for at least five Boeing aircraft to be based there, IfSorTc on the buildings will commence in the first half of 1967 and the complex, which will oc­ cupy more than 100 acres, will consist of a cargo terminal, a hangar capable of housing supersonic airliners and larger aircraft, vrorkshops and a facilities area. Eventually, at least 600 people will be employed on the base. Douglas DC-4 'VH-EDB of Qantas burst two tyres and damaged the main under­ carriage when it landed at Sydney Airport on 25 December at the conclusion_ __ _ of a flightfligh from Norfolk Island, The aircraft came to a halt in the middle of the runway as fire trucks and rescue vehicles raced to meet it, None of the crew and passengers (total of sixteen) were hurt. The French airline. Union de Transportes Aeriens (UTA) began the weekly service between Noumea, on New Caledonia, and Sydney, NSYi, on 6 December (see page 55 of July-August issue) with Sud-Aviation Caravelle lOR F-BNRA, As a prelude^ the Caravelle made several demonstration flights from Sydney and Melbourne for press re­ presentatives on 3 December. The aircraft will be based at Noumea for services to Sydney, Auckland {New Zealand), and Fiji, On 11 December, BOAC's Boeing 707-436 G-APFF lost the aft inner port wheel while taxying for take-off at Brisbane Airport, Qld, The complete undercarriage le^ was replaced by another leg that arrived on 13 December in BOAC's Boeing 707-436 G-APFC that was diverted to Brisbane on a normal Darwin-Sydney service. In early November, Fiji Airv^ays ordered a Hawker Siddeley H,S.748 Series 2 for delivery in August 1967, It will replace the airline's De Havilland Herons on the busier routes in the area. The chairman of the Australian National Airlines Commission (Sir Frederick Scherger) announced on 21 December that TAA would introduce a cadet pilot training scheme similar to that of Qantas. TAA will undertake the basic theory training in its existing school at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, but elementary flying training will be done ’by registered flying training schools (including aero clubs} those Darts of Australia where the cadets are recruited, TAA proposes to purchase light •Dwin-engined aircraft to conduct its own advanced training. Twelve cadets will be chosen for the first course which is due to commence in April 1967, A#H*S*A* Journal 86 Noirembar-Deceinber 1966 On 30 December^ TAA and Ansett-AMA submitted revised timetables to the Director- General of Civil Aviation for approval| it is believed that the schedules were very similar« On the same day, the managing director of Ansett Transport Industries (Mr* R.M* Ansett) announced its proposed times in which services on the Melbourne-Sydney route would leave "on the hour"^’ and would be introduced on 18 January 1967 (subject to approval being forthcoming)e The revised timetables have been planned by the air­ lines from data that has been received progressively from the survey of passengers’ views that was conducted recently by the special committee ^established by the Minister for Civil^.Aviation (see page 72 of September-October issue)# A newspaper report on 9 Deceii^ber indicated that preparations were in hand for Ansett-AMA to change its name to Ansett Airlines of Australia early in^l967# p- sent name has the disadvantage that the company is not identified specifically as an airline nor with Australia* This has been disadvantageous^ particularly in overseas countries where bookings are made in competition with the clearly-defined rival, Trans Australia Airlines* Queensland Airlines Ltd#, a subsidiary of Ansett Transport Industries, has ceased operations under the former name^ and its services became nart of the Ansett-AIA net­ work on__ 5 Decembei because, followinf: the Arbitrator’s decision that gave equal access to TAii on the Brisbane-Rockhampton service, it was no longer practical for ATI to re­ tain a separate airline identity in Queensland# Further (partly due to the decision) it would not be possible to utilise QAL’s second Fokker Friendship fully, and a common name would permit greater flexibility in use of equipment# QAL had been operating Fokker Friendships VH-FRE and VH-F'OT, and Douglas DC-3C’s VH-AAU and VH-AOHe:^ A de­ scription of the last QAL service on 4 December appears on page 92 of this issue* At the annual general meeting of East West Airlines on December, the chairman (Mr# D.M# Shand) announced a net profit of ^08,138 for the year ended 30 June 1966 (a decrease of 5#7^o on the previous year) although revenue had reached a record figure of ^2#9 million (an increase of 12#5%) and 191,401 passengers had been carried (an in- crease of 5^6%), The profit was attributed largely to energetic development of chart­ ers and air tours and to the engineering activities at the airliners base at Tamworth, ESI "despite the uneconomic structuretructure of its allotted airline network"j it was stat*- : ed that the transfer of five additional ports from Airlines of ES?i in late 1965 was not advantageous because "low passenger traffic and short stage distances made these additional air routes uneconomical to operate even when integrated with other East- West air services"# East West Airlines contracted on 22 December for another F'okker Friendship to be delivered in November 1967# This will bring the fleet of Friendships to five (the fourth is scheduled for delivery in February 1967) and will permit the Douglas DC-3€’s to be phased out of service# The twelve pilots employed by Brain and Brown Airfreighters Ltd# (which is based at Moorabbin Airport, Vic#> Y/ent on strike over a salary claim on 13 November# i‘he company had offered an increase of 10% but the Australian Federation of Air Pilots liad sought an initial increase of 17% to be followed, by two increases of 7% and 6% at in­ tervals of one year which would bring the salaries close to those recently negotiated for pilots with the major domestic airlines (see p^ge 55 of July-August issue;# The company's three Douglas DG-3 freighters (VH-BAA, BAB and BAl^i) were grounded and the manager, Mr# T# Brain, flew some services with their Avro Type 652AM Anson YH-BAF# Bristol Freighter VH-ADL of Air Express Ltd# operated on flights between Melbourne and Tasmanian centres# The company dismissed the pilots and, on 22 November, after'further talks with the AFAP in which the Federation Yvas reported to suggest three alternatives (meet the salary claims; face a threat of influence on other unions to withdraw ground staff if non-federation pilots were employed; cancel contracts and cease operations), the managing director of the company (Mr# 1# Brown) announced that the firm would leave the aviation industry. He indicated that the company’s balance sheets had been made available to the AFAP to prove that it was not economically practicable to meet the ^ claims# After several offers were received for purchase of the aircraft, farther negot­ iations Y/ith the pilots led to agreement on 28 November for an increase of 12-^ which would“be followed by further increases later; normal operations resumed that night# IPEC-AIR, through a broker, advertised their Douglas DC-4 G-ARWK for sale in England because it could not be imported into Australia (see page 1 of January-February issue)# The aircraft had been formally delivered to the company at Gatwick Airport, England, in early February 1966 and, in a ceremony at the airport, it was named "Spirit of Enterprise" by the Agent-General for South Australia (Mr# A. Pearce), the state in which the Interstate Parcel Express Company (IPEC) commenced its road-freight operat­ ions some years ago# Change nf oYmership from Lloyd International Airways to IPEC-Air was effective from 31 December 1965 and, previous to registration as G-ARWK in 1962, ‘ , identities had been N904 and 45-483 (C-54G-1-D0) with constructor’s number 35936# A*H«S»At Journal 87 loYember-Deoember 1966 The Director»»General of Civil Aviation (Mr® Anderson) said on 14 lovember that investigations into the crash of Vickers Viscount VH-EMI (see page 73 of the September-- October issue) had disclosed evidence of an in-flight' failure in one of the cabin pres- surisation
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