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FLIGHT International, 9 January 1964 61 Straight 3 n d Level ACCORDING to a Bristol Siddeleypress release, the recent agreementwith the Marquardt Corporation of America "envisions the advancement of the state-of-the-art." The Marquardt com- pany, adds this British company's press release, produces ramjets which are "cur- rently in operation as the cruise propulsion system for the Air Force Bomarc interceptor missile." Whose Air Force? Whose language? Currently and as of now I envision that the Bristol Siddeley guy who wrote that may be overly oriented with an updated Amer- ican environmental capability posture con- cept of the English language. • Talking about the state-of-the-language and all that, I hear from Boeing that the 727's FAA certification trials included "maximum energy landings." You can just imagine it:— "Okay, now we'll do a maximum energy landing for the FAA inspector here. Ready, sir? Let's go ... Turning on to finals now . . . undercarriage down and locked, flaps 50°, weight 150,0001b, r.p.m. 100 per cent, speed 600kt . . ." / say, do you MIND ? [Stearmans locked in an embrace at RCAF Bowden, Canada, in 1942. Nobody hurt] from a week's visit to the USSR, and his visit does not seem to have been conditional on his not saying anything to the Press about what he saw. Stalk your quarry with camera concealed until they all roar with laughter at some- thing the chairman has just said, and then do your stuff. 0 Last June the Minister of Aviation and a party of prominent British aviation people visited the Soviet Union, where they were shown a good deal of Russia's civil aeronautical developments. The Press were told, after their return, that nothing could be published about what they had seen because the visit had been made on the understanding that it would be confidential. I find it hard to understand why Mr Julian Amery should have given such an undertaking, but there we are. I only mention the matter because Mr Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the US Federal Aviation Agency, has recently returned • A bouquet for the Flight International photographer who took the pictures (December 12 issue) of personalities at the BALPA cocktail party. Everyone looked extremely cheerful, as everyone in British aviation always does—except when they are photographed. Every week this journal receives good- ness knows how many photographs of groups of people looking frightfully solemn and glum—but only because so many photographers think their job is to pose the subject instead of themselves. So here's a suggested New Year resolu- tion for the publicity photographers: All right lads, out of the way now—the Twin Pioneer isn't all that STOL ||:|||||l|||rf?«5;r5ffff|::i||f|ssHsHsfHf|l=??Hii??ISS=«s""---""III The trip to Britain, in a borrowed i|f balloon, started to come unstucksoon after taking off. For a com- bined blizzard and gale blew up,the balloon " hedge-hopped " across the sea, dipping into the wavetopsat regular intervals until they were frozen and stiff and Mile.Marvingt, as calm as ever, even went to the length of taking offher skirt "so as to be ready for any eventualities." BACK TO BED They came down with a bumpnear Southwold and she hopped out—while the balloon bounded off,,into the night carrying away her Hi companion. But worse was.. _to" —From a Suffolk local newspaper, December 27 • Congratulations to Flying Officer Dmitri Sotov, RAF, who made the first easterly crossing of the Irish Sea by sailplane at the end of last month. Fg Off Sotov flew an Olympia 2 130 miles from the undoubtedly Irish RAF station of Ballykelly and landed in an indisputably Scottish bog—from which he and the aircraft were helped by campers and the RAF Leuchars rescue team. Fg Off Sotov, 24 years old, is a New Zealander, from Christchurch. I now await confirmation of the first trans-Caspian glider flight made in a Thermalov sailplane by Colonel of the Soviet Air Force and Hero of the Soviet Union Charlie Higginbotham, from Novo- sibrirsk. ROGER BACON
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