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THURSDAY MAY 30, 1963 Number 2829 Volume 83 Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. SMITH DFC Editor H. F.KING MBE Technical Editor W.T.QU NSTON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMS D EN Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PR1AULX MBE In this issue World News 766 Royal Weather at Lasham 768 Air Commerce 7 69 World Air Safety 775 Now—5,000,000 Jet Hours 781 VC10 on Test 784 Straight and Level 7 88 Cessna's Model 336 Skymaster 789 Letters 7 91 Service Aviation 7 92 Missiles and Spaceflight 793 Industry International 799 Official Orean of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded in 1909 Plato and "H.P." LIKE the wide acres of the sky, of whose spaciousness he partakes as a practising airman, the Duke of Edinburgh's ideas on life and society are fresh and broad. In delivering the first Handley Page Memorial Lecture on May 21 at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield (World News, page 766), he propounded a view of life in our industrial society based simply on the idea that what matters is not what a man does but how diligently he does it—whether, following the Platonian dictum as to the value of education, he is a good man and acts nobly. Thus, said the duke, education in our modern technical society was needed in three inter related senses: in the Platonic sense, so that men would act nobly; in the vocational sense, so that they would do their chosen jobs well; and in the managerial sense, so that they would discharge their responsibilities towards those whose work they directed fairly and efficiently. Like all airmen, Prince Philip is a realist as well as an idealist (this dual strain is clearly seen in the best airmen-writers, such as Lindbergh, St Exupery, Ernest Gann). Thus he emphasized in his lecture that compen sation must be made for inequalities of talent, even with equality of opportunity; and he referred to the "fundamental question" as to whether the system should be designed to benefit the state or to promote the happiness and welfare of the individual. On this point, the duke said, there should be a compromise: complete freedom of choice for the indivi dual would produce an unbalance in society, while complete direction would be morally unsatisfactory. He found room for criticism of much of the present state of affairs in the UK, saying that "it looks as if the technical training and employment of operatives, craftsmen and technicians is too limited and is based too exclusively on the immediate and narrow demands of jobs to be filled at any given moment." In a society where complete freedom of choice for an individual "would produce an unbalance," what place should be accorded to the great individualist in whose memory the Cranfield lectures have been inaugu rated? Speaking from his own aeronautical experience, Prince Philip said of the "ruggedly independent" Sir Frederick Handley Page: "Here was a man who was one of that small band of pioneers who found the world without aviation, set about making it possible for man to fly, and lived to see the first man travel in space." iliffe 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 $15.00. Second Class Mail privileges authorized at New York, NY. Branch Offices: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora tion Street: telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, New Street, Birmingham 2 ; telephone Mid land 7191. Manchester, 260 Deansgate, Manchester 3 ; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 62 Bucha nan Street, Glasgow CI; telephone Central 1265-6. New York, NY : Thomas Skinner * Co (Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197. © Iliffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1963. Permission to reproduce illustra tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extracts or comments may be made with due acknowledgement. Paris 1963 WE chose the above as the title of the special editorial content in our next issue—Paris Show Guide—because it needs no trans lation. Would that the same were true of the terminology encountered in the 79 pages of technical and trade reporting which constitute the special bilingual section. We are naturally proud that the abstracting and translation of the English text into French was undertaken solely by members of our own staff. Among these we are fortunate in having men of uncommon lin guistic ability, enabling them to conduct the journal's business abroad with increasing assurance and—with recourse to our own aircraft—with increasing facility. One in particular will be conversing at the Paris Show in four languages—when he is not engaged in testing new typas of aircraft. So does our international coverage continually extend.
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