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1962
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CHT Official Organ of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded in 1909 International HURSDAY 4 JANUARY 1962 Number 2756 Volume 81 Edit or-in- Chief MAURICE A. SMITH DFC Editor H. F. KING MBE Technical Editor W. T. GUNSTON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMSD E N Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MBE In this issue World News 3 Missiles and Spacerlight 5 Channel Air Bridge 10 Progress in Poland 14 Tangible Mirages 18 Letters 22 Straight and Level 23 Sport and Business 24 Air Commerce 27 Industry International 34 Service Aviation 36 lliffe Transport Publications Ltd, Dorset House. Stamford Street, London SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137). Telegrams Flightpres London Telex. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s. Overseas £5. Canada and USA S15.00. Second Class Mall privileges authorized at New York, N.Y. Branch Offices Coventry: 8-10 Corpora tion Street; telephone "Coventry 25210. Birmingham: King Edward House, New-Street, 2; telephone Midland 7191. Man chester: 2fi0 Deansgate 3; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow: 62 Buchanan Street CI; tele phone Central 1265-6. New York, NY: Thomas Skinner & Co (Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197. © Iliffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1962. Permission to reproduce illustra tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extracts or comments may be made with due acknowledgement. Concerning: "Flight International". . . REGROUPING, redeployment, rationalization. These are the keystones of the industrial structures newly erected in Britain, America and Europe—structures which are strengthened by an all-round tautening of purpose and planning, by a new buttressing of resources, skills and facilities. In general these changes have been for the better, and Flight's own views and policies have been largely in accord with them. Considered in the context of recent developments, both national and international, the well-remembered talk about shot-gun weddings, so rife three or four years ago, now appears as a passing protest from an industry negotiating an unpleasant turn. Truly, times have changed; and with them the entire pattern of Britain's aircraft industry. Yet, while Flight has continuously served that industry—has, indeed, been identified with it—we have always considered ourselves the most international of air journals. Our overseas readership, over a third of our total, gives proof of this; and at the coming of this new year we have united our traditional "windsock'" facsimile with the word which we have so frequently played upon. Today we become Flight International. With English already the lingua franca of the airline and aircraft industries, and with a further increment in editorial pages, we are expanding in scope as well as in size. This issue sets the pattern. We make no secret of our plans: they are a simple and natural development of our former policies. We intend Flight International's Beagle Airedale to be frequently seen on business trips beyond the Channel, as well as over these Islands. Our air transport news and commentaries will develop in breadth of coverage and depth of incision. Spaceflight, service aviation and sporting and executive flying will all have greater claim on our space. Coverage of new products, and in particular electronics and flight systems, will be intensified and broadened. Roger Bacon will pursue his straight and level course whatever blandishments, inducements or refreshments Sir Charles Boost or others may put his way. And we are making our journal easier on the eye. .. . and the British Aircraft Industry Having declared our international intentions we might reasonably be expected to affirm our responsibilities towards the British aircraft industry, with which, as we have said, we have long been identified. The affairs of that industry must continue to be our particular concern, and the relation ships and goodwill existing between us must be nurtured as hitherto. Comment and criticism must continue at the present level; but we shall aim increasingly to interest ourselves and our readers in relevant aspects of industry abroad. As we see it, our heaviest responsibility in this regard is the publicizing and, wherever possible, appraisal of British aeronautical products, though by definition an international journal must seek to render a similar service to other nations. Come what may, then, in the aircraft, airline or spaceflight industries of the world this is how Flight is developing—bigger, better, international.
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