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May 14, 1968
Page 77
Aviation DAILY

GRAHAM URGES FAST ACTION ON CARGO FACILITIES

Local authorities must act now to expand ground facilities if their airports are to become major air cargo centers in the 1970-75 era, Harold L. Graham, Pan American's v.p.-cargo sales, said last week in Boston.
Speaking at an Air Cargo Day sponsored by the International Center of New England, Graham said, "A basic premise of business is that you must make it easy for the customer to do business with you." Thus, the airlines must simplify procedures and systems, and the airport authorities must provide maximum space for doing business.
As all-cargo aircraft become larger, he warned, and airlines talk in terms of C-5A and Boeing 747 freighters, it will not be feasible for carriers to provide air cargo services to cities that are close together. It would no tbe economically sound, he explained, to land a large aircraft at less than 500 mile intervals. As a result, a choice must be made as the whether the aircraft will land at Boston, New York or Philadelphia.
Graham advised, "Unless detailed plans are made and presented to the carriers to show how the entire program can be affected, you will find the individual carriers, by default, each going its own way and solving their problems in a much less economic method than through the consolidation of an atmosphere of support is the key to airline cooperation with the community."
With aircraft the size of the C-5A or the 747 freighter, there will come a ppint when there will be a requirement for no more than two or three freighter airports in Europe, and no more than two on the East Coast of the U.S., Graham asserted.
Thus, he said, the planning of communities interested in being the hub of air cargo service must include facilitation of air-truck, and air-sea combination traffic. The airport will change its basic concept from being a consolidation point for thousands of small shipments to a loading point for containerized traffic, Graham emphasized, and the development of off-airport consolidation points must be expanded at every terminal in the next few years.

GE/RYAN XV-5 TO BE TURNED OVER TO NASA AFTER MODIFICATIONS

Modification and overhaul of Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s XV-58 VTOL aircraft will be completed and turned over to NASA's Ames Research Center in about two weeks, it was learned.
The aircraft is the remaining XV-%a repaired following an accident and modified to outfit it for flight testing at Ames. Army turned it over to NASA, with Ryan obtaining a contract for modification and overhaul.
Major modification is shifting of landing gear from the fuselage to the wing outboard of the lifting fans, with the wing beefed up, including the leading edge, for the extra load, Gear will be fixed for the time being. A future additional modification will give the gear folding brace and a pod to fair it in the retracted position.
Room left in the fuselage as a result of moving the gear was modified for NASA instrumentation packages. Other new instrumentation for NASA flight testing has gone into the right side of the cockpit. the aircraft will be ferried to join other V/STOL test vehicles at Ames upon completion of the current work at Ryan's San Diego facility.

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES NAMES MAGOON BOARD CHAIRMAN

Hawaiian Airlines has appointed John H. Magoon, Jr. as board chairman, succeeding Stanley C. Kennedy Sr., who died last month. Magoon has been president and chief executive officer of the carrier, and he will keep these posts in addition to the board chairmanship.


CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO. appointed Alaskan Aircraft Sales, Inc., Anchorage as wholesale distributor.