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220 FLIGHT International, 8 February 1%2 LETTERS . . . the airline did in the previous year—even our own people in the Federation seem reluctant to accept the fact at face value. Obviously I cannot clarify the full position in a letter, but our shareholders are very fully informed. One point I can clarify. CAA is a partner in the Quadripartite group, as it does not operate long-haul services to Europe and Britain, having traded this traffic to BOAC for a ten-year period under a commercial agreement which, mirabile dictu, is working to the reasonable satisfaction of both parties; but CAA does not participate in revenue pooling, and therefore receives no financial entitlements whatsoever from the Quadripartite Revenue Pool. Maybe we are lending support to the old airline adage to the effect that the best way to make money is to give each passenger a £5 note and ask him to travel some other way. Our financial year ends in June and your readers are invited to watch for another exciting instalment—CAA may succeed in earning an even larger profit this year! M. STUART-SHAW Chief Executive and General Manager, Central African Airways Corporation Mr Halaby's Mishap SIR,—You erred in your December 28 editorial dealing with Mr Halaby's accident at Washington National Airport. It was a Grumman Gulfstream, not a Cessna. The collision was actually a taxying accident. Both the Grumman and Vis count were standing on the run-up pad at the end of the runway. The Viscount was waiting for an IFR clearance. Mr Halaby was going VFR, so he was cleared to taxi around the waiting Viscount. He misjudged, and bumped wing-tips. Washington DC MAX KARANT Vice-President, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association [Thank you, Mr Karant. Perhaps Mr Halaby was thinking it was a Cessna!—Ed.] Museum Missiles SIR,—Mr Noble Frankland's Olympian and acidulated com ments [January 25] about the well-aimed rocket fired by Roger Bacon reminded me of a comparable instance of slightly off-beam placarding which irritates me every time I visit the fascinating Imperial War Museum. This concerns a different species of rocket, namely, the V-2 —which, if I am not mistaken, is not very far from the V-l shown in your photograph. On this example of teutonic missilery neatly printed cards identify and briefly explain the various components, and at the hot end is one bearing the legend (I quote from memory) "Carbon controlled vanes used for guidance." Clearly this should be "Carbon control vanes . . .," the objects in question being the aerofoil-section surfaces which pivoted in the throat of the propulsive nozzle of the rocket motor, this being the method used in the days before gimballed chambers were used to deflect the efflux and hence control the missile. The vanes themselves were gyro-controlled and were, of course, manufactured from, and not controlled by, sintered carbon. This may seem a pedantic point, but not more so than the tone of Mr Frankland's letter; and I venture to suggest that had he made a practice of reading your admirable journal, instead of simply being "shown" it, then the case might never have arisen. Leeds, Yorkshire M. J. LUND Roger Bacon's Pension SIR,—Congratulations to Flight International on its new venture. If Flight lasted for over 50 years, surely Flight International—depending on the whims of Messrs Kennedy and Krushchev, and on our own Mr Hugh Strangeways— should last for another 50. Congratulations again, Flight International, for employing the elder ones amongst us. It is truly heartening to see the Editor stoically restraining his impulses to . . . But to the real problem of his employment of Roger Bacon—the latter's old age pension. Since Mr Bacon is of some age (748 years), the problem is one of back-payments. The old age pension is payable after the age of 65, but, unfortunately for Mr Bacon, did not begin until 1908. Thus, if my mathematics are correct, he is eligible for the sum of 1,375,400s, or £68,770, which is as good as a win on the pools. Although this has been settled, it is still doubtful whether, in view of the pay pause, le pauvre Roger Bacon will be paid. If he is offered payment in kind, both sides—Roger Bacon and HM Treasury—will surely be satisfied with my sugges tion. This is: Three volumes of the Plummet Air Lines brochure plugging their Supa All-Star Thru-Flite V jet services—Heathrow and/or Gatwick to Potters Bar and/or East Cheam, via Hyde Park Corner—plus 12,372 copies of BEA's brochure saying "you deserve a second holiday"; and in view of his great age, an honorary commission in the Chelsea Pensioners, with—for pure perks, in recognition of a long nit-picking, brick-dropping career—a 1/38 scale poly styrene model of a Scruggs Speedmaster. I am indebted to Newnes Encyclopaedia, vols 1 and 6, for my information, and will yield only to the Britannica. Leeds 14 c. TAYLOR American-registered Do28s SIR,—Without wishing to be a "nitpicker," I would like to support your statement (page 25, January 4) that Dornier Do28 N-774E was the first example to be registered in the USA. This aircraft, owned by the Elkhort Engineering Corporation, passed through Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Air port on October 6 last year, on delivery to the States via Iceland, thereby "beating" Mr I. Irwin's Do28 (Flight International, January 18) by several weeks. Edinburgh 4 D. J. MAGRATH FORTHCOMING EVENTS Feb 8 London Society of Air-Britain: Films and "Flight Planning—Then and Now" by Capt James T. Percy. Feb 12 Institute of Transport: Brancker Memorial Lecture by Keith Granville. Feb 13 RAeS Astronautics and Guided Flight Section/British Interplanetary Society: Symposium on Economics of Astronautics. Feb 14 Society of Environmental Engineers: "Human Response to Mechanical and Climatic Environmental Stress," by Fit Lt J. C. Guignard. Feb 14 Wiltshire School of Flying: Lecture and Film Show. Feb 15 RAeS Main Lecture at Birmingham and Wolverhamp ton Branch): "Light Aircraft," by Peter W. Brooks. Feb 15 RAeS: All-day Symposium of Specialist Lectures. Feb 16 Institute of Navigation: Lectures on The Navigation of Light Aircraft. Feb 20 RAeS: "High-Performance Turbine Engines," by R. H. Weir. Feb 20 Photogrammetric Society: Symposium on Camera Calibration. Feb 20 International Airline Navigators Council: 12th Annual Convention, London. Feb 21 Society of Instrument Technology (Bristol Section): Discussion on Instrument Design. Feb 22 Aerodrome Owners' Association: a.g.m. and Annual Dinner. RAeS Branch Fixtures (to Feb 15): Feb 12, Gloucester and Cheltenham, "Modern Alloys for High Temperature Service," by P. A. Morgan. Feb 13. Luton, "Cybernetics," by S. C. Dunn. Feb 14, Chester, "Recent Trends in Gas Turbine Lubricants," by E. D. Edwards; Chrtstchurch, "Crop Spraying and Pest Control," by R. F. Hill; Reading and District, "Investment Castings for the Engineer," by D. Morris; Feb 15, Birmingham and Wolverhamp ton, see above.
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