The Story of Indian Air Transport

1961 ◽  
Vol 65 (601) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. D. Tata
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
British Commonwealth

The Sixteenth British Commonwealth Lecture, The Story of Indian Air Transport, by Mr. J. R. D. Tata, Chairman of Air-India International, was given before a distinguished audience on 18th November 1960 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London, S.W.1.The President of the Society, Dr. E. S. Moult, C.B.E., B.Sc., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Mech.E., presided at the meeting. Before introducing the Lecturer the President explained that hitherto the election of Fellows had been initiated by the Council and announced once a year but, under the new By-Laws, Fellowship was to be regarded as a position which could be attained by any qualified member who had reached a position of eminence and responsibility in the profession of aeronautics. At the same time it had been decided that the announcement of such elections should be made not just once a year, but on occasions such as this.The names of 22 members who had been elected to Fellowship since May 1960 were then read out by the Secretary. (These names were published in the December Journal–Ed.)After congratulating the new Fellows, Dr. Moult said that the British Commonwealth series of lectures started at the end of the War in 1945, and had continued annually until the present day. Throughout the years they had had a series of outstanding lectures on subjects associated with aeronautics in the Commonwealth, given by most distinguished lecturers. The stature of this lecture was set for all time in 1954 when His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh addressed them on “Aviation and the Development of Remote Areas”. Now they were to hear about the growth of aviation in one of the great members of the Commonwealth. Air Transport in India was now thirty years old1 and there was no one more suited to tell the story of that thirty years than their lecturer, Mr. J. R. D. Tata.Mr. Tata had been actively associated with this development all his working life. Indeed, it was true to say he had had a major part in it. He learned to fly in 1929 and personally flew the first scheduled transport service in India in 1932. He had been associated with aviation throughout all these years and a few years ago was president of I.A.T.A., the International Air Transport Association; he was now Chairman of Air-India International. He had great pleasure in asking Mr. Tata to give the Sixteenth British Commonwealth Lecture, “The Story of Indian Air Transport.”

Some Recent Progress in Air Survey With Particular Reference to Newly-Developed Territories

1960 ◽  
Vol 64 (589) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
W. P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
General Manager ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Wilbur Wright

The Fifteenth British Commonwealth Lecture “Some Recent Progress in Air Survey with Particular Reference to Newly- Developed Territories" was given by W. P. Smith, M.B.E., B.A., F.R.I.C.S. before the Royal Aeronautical Society at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 19th November 1959. Mr. Peter G. Masefield, M.A., F.R.Ae.S., Hon.F.I.A.S., President of the Society, presided. Introducing the Lecturer the President said: This lecture was the second of their four premier named annual lectures. The first was the traditional Wilbur Wright Lecture, the second this Commonwealth Lecture, the third was the Louis Bleriot Lecture and the fourth the Lanchester Memorial Lecture. Five years ago, as many of them would recall, His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, honoured them by giving the Commonwealth Lecture on ”Aviation and the Development of Remote Areas.“He thought that they could say that the subject of Mr. Smith's Commonwealth Lecture was in some ways a projection of the Duke of Edinburgh's lecture, under the title "Some Recent Progress in Air Survey with Particular Reference to Newly- Developed Territories.”Mr. W. P. Smith was a Director and leading light of Fairey Air Surveys Limited. Naturally as befitted a Commonwealth Lecturer, Mr. Smith was a master of his subject—one could almost say that he was “monarch of all he surveys.” He was a Durham man, born in 1920; he was educated at Wellfield School, Durham, and went up to Oxford and took his degree there. During the War, Mr. Smith was in command of Survey Units in the Royal Engineers and after the War he transferred to the Survey Branch of the Control Commission, in Germany. Then, in 1946 he left the Army to join the new Directorate of Colonial Surveys as a Senior Surveyor, and went to West Africa on the Volta River Project. He worked in Africa for a period and then in 1950 he joined Fairey Air Surveys Limited, then known as the Air Survey Company, as many would remember. He was a General Manager then, and was now a Director. So Mr. Smith had spent all his working life dealing with the subject on which he was going to talk about that evening, and in particular, he had been in charge of that vast Kariba Hydro-Electric Survey, on the Zambesi. They could have no one better to talk about Air Survey, and it was said that “life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” Air Survey, and the sort of things Mr. Smith was going to talk about was, in some ways, a way of filling in some of those insufficiencies.He had much pleasure in calling on Mr. Smith to deliver the Fifteenth British Commonwealth Lecture.

Aeronautical Research and Development in the Commonwealth

1964 ◽  
Vol 68 (638) ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
A. E. Woodward-Nutt
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
British Commonwealth

“Tadpole and Taper were great friends. Neither of them ever despaired of the Commonwealth.” Disraeli—“Coningsby”.In looking through the list of British Commonwealth Lectures one finds that the great majority deal with the work or problems of a particular country. There are few which deal with the Commonwealth as a whole, the outstanding exception being the remarkable paper on Aviation and the Development of Remote Areas given by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

The Problem of Landing Commercial Aircraft in Fog

1934 ◽  
Vol 38 (286) ◽  
pp. 807-836
Author(s):  
R. Stussel
Keyword(s):  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Great Problem ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
Technical Aids ◽  
Bad Weather

Summary(1)Survey of the present methods of carrying out air transport service when visibility is bad.(2)What is essentially required of technical aids for landing under bad weather conditions.(3)Short survey of current German methods for solving the problem of landing in fog.The necessity for being able to carry out air transport unhindered by weather conditions is inseparably associated with the idea of commercial air service. This great problem of “ flight in any weather ” has confronted us since the inception of regular services between places having corresponding traffic needs, that is to say, since the very birth of air transport.

Australia's Internal Air Transport

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (625) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Imperial College ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Australian Department

The Eighteenth British Commonwealth Lecture, “Australia's Internal Air Transport” by Mr. John L. Watkins, O.B.E., B.E., D.I.C., F.R.Ae.S., Director of Engineering, Trans-Australia Airlines, was given in the Lecture Theatre of the Society on 11th October 1962. The President of the Society, Mr. B. S. Shenstone, M.A.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., F.I.A.S., F.C.A.S.I., presided.Before the lecture Sir Roy Dobson, President of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, presented certificates of S.B.A.C. University Scholarships to the following who had completed, or were about to complete, their courses: J. M. Chaney (Blackburn Aircraft, College of Aeronautics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), B. C. Latter (Blackburn Aircraft and College of Aeronautics), R. A. Newnham (Handley Page—College of Aeronautics), R. A. Williamson (A. V. Roe & Co.—College of Aeronautics), D. F. Pilkington (A. V. Roe & Co.— Imperial College), R. J. G. Archer (de Havilland Engine Co.—Imperial College) and C. E. H. Joy (Bristol Siddeley—Imperial College).Introducing the Lecturer, Mr. Shenstone said that unlike many of the lecturers in this series, Mr. Watkins had been raised in the country of which he was to speak. He had taken his degree of Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 1930 and then took a post-graduate course at Imperial College, London. In 1932 he joined Vickers-Armstrongs and worked on early geodetic work under Dr. Barnes Wallis. Returning to Australia in 1934, Mr. Watkins joined the Air Board, which later became the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. During the war Mr. Watkins had worked on special projects for the RAAF in the Australian Department of Aircraft Production, with the Army Inventions Directorate, and on many other projects. When Trans-Australia Airlines was formed in 1946 he was appointed Technical Superintendent and since 1953 had been Director of Engineering. One of the jobs he was most noted for outside Australia was his responsibility for choosing aircraft for TAA and also for British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines when that Airline existed as a separate entity. In 1950 Mr. Watkins had been loaned to the Government of India as Technical Adviser to the Indian Air Transport Inquiry Committee.Mr. Watkins had been awarded the O.B.E. for his services to Australian Civil Aviation in 1958 and had been a Fellow of the Society since 1956. He was a past Chairman of the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Division.

Operation Lifeline: History and Development of the Naval Air Transport Service.

1948 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Henry M. Dater ◽  
James Lee ◽  
Joe Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Air Transport ◽  
Transport Service

The urban metabolism of airline passengers: Scaling and sustainability

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary P Neal
Keyword(s):  
Allometric Scaling ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
City Size ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Airline Passengers ◽  
Airline Passenger ◽  
Using Data

Concerns about the negative externalities of air transport suggest it is important to consider the sustainability of growth in demand for air transport. However, there is little agreement on how the sustainability of demand should be evaluated. In this paper, I draw on the extensive literature on allometric scaling in biology, which examines animals’ demand for calories, to provide a novel framework for evaluating the sustainability of cities’ demand for air transport service. Viewing cities as analogous to organisms and airline passengers as analogous to life-sustaining resources, I focus on two questions. First, at what rate do cities metabolise passengers, that is, how many airline passengers does it take to fuel a city of a given size? Second, does this metabolic rate differ for business and leisure passengers, which represent different kinds of urban resources? Using data on airline passenger movement between 103 US metropolitan areas in each year from 1993 through 2011, I find that cities demand airline passengers in proportion to their population size, but when viewed separately, demand for business passengers as a function of city size is much lower than for leisure passengers. Moreover, I find that these patterns have remained relatively stable over the last two decades. The findings suggest that considering passenger type is important in evaluating the sustainability of air transport and the capacity of the air transport system to support cities’ continued growth.

scholarly journals An empirical assessment of willingness to accept “low-cost” air transport services: Evidence from the Middle East

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Sanaz Vatankhah ◽  
Mansour Zarra-Nezhad ◽  
Ghanbar Amirnejad
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Food And Beverage

Despite the rapid growth of low-cost airlines in the U.S. and Europe, yet little is known about the feasibility of such services in developing and less developed countries. In such a region, hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate passengers’ preferences and willingness to accept low-cost air transport services. Accordingly, a choice experiment was applied to examine passenger choices associated with a bundle of service attributes applicable to low-cost air transport service. Results of multinomial logit models defined fare, frequent flyer program, food and beverage services, ground services, flexibility, frequency and punctuality as determining factors affecting passengers’ air transport choice in Iran. Results further demonstrated that passengers’ preferences and their willingness to accept low-cost air transport service are associated with their socio-economic characteristics and travel behavior. This study contributes to the relative body of knowledge through offering willingness to accept calculation as a strategic tool to assess the feasibility of low-cost air transport provision in a region where such services are yet scarce.

The Impact of Speed on Transport

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (691) ◽  
pp. 603-610
Author(s):  
George Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Air Transport ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
The Impact

I am especially honoured to be invited to deliver the inaugural address of the newest branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society here in Ireland, with your exceptional contribution and involvement in both the pioneering and progress of commercial air transport. It is also a great pleasure to have my old friend Captain Jack Kelly-Rogers, one of the world’s truly great aviators and most appropriately your first Chairman, officiating tonight. As President of the Weybridge Branch of the Society I also bring you their greetings and best wishes.

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