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162 FLIGHT International, 5 March 1964 Straight and Level ^M A FEW weeks ago I came over a bitacid about BOAC's sales efforts inScotland. Now 1 see that they are ippointing a general sales manager in Scotland, "to make Scots more conscious )f BO AC as their national carrier." Good or BO AC. ft The FAA's supersonic boom tests with F-104s over Oklahoma City have brought juite a number of complaints. According to one report in the Daily Telegraph a woman rang up the FAA and protested that the tests were making her furniture shrink. Suggested standard reply for the use of the FAA and civil aviation authorities ;verywhere:— "Ah yes, madam, we are of course well iware of the furniture-shrinking effects of supersonic booms. However, we consider the shrinkage to be well within acceptable imits." ft Mr Fred Lee, Labour's shadow Minister of Aviation, says that the independents' monopoly of trooping is a "disgusting anomaly." Sir Giles Disguthrie, chairman of BOAC, uomments: "Our Fred is perfectly right. In fact, the reason why we can't publish the BOAC- Cunard agreement is that when we showed it to the Lord Chamberlain he pronounced it an obscene libel! Actually we had an awful job getting anyone to print it, until Straight and Level agreed to take it on. "Yes, our Fred has all the attributes of a splendid Minister of Aviation. We can be sure that in air transport he will always put doctrinaire politics first and the pursuit of public service and profit last." • "The beetles, laddie? What beetles? And why special arrangements? Is it a question of food? What do beetles eat, anyway?" "Jellybabies mostly, I think, sir. But the real trouble is the fans." "Why, surely our 707s' by-pass engines are good enough?" "Yes, sir, but I don't think you're quite gear, as they say. Pan American are actually offering to pay to fly them! "Gear? Is something wrong with our undercarriages, laddie? If so we'd better get the engineering people to see to them. Now, about those plans to promote our image in the USA . . ." • Puzzled, Potters Bar How is it after 19 years and £50 million the British helicopter industry, welded into one to be more com- petitive with the Americans, has allowed the British Army's requirement for a simple ;costs. The company has plans for production models capable of air-lifting missiles, armoured: vehicles, pre-assembled bridges, industrial gen- erators and transformers, television transmitter masts, and missionaries. rom an aviation newsletter, February 14 'blimey, mate, it was only yesterday that we gave you a new wing" USAF Hustler pilot to British defence corres- pondent: "Do come and look at the under- carriage, old man. It is—how do you say over here?—the very latest in mod gear" little helicopter and BEA's requirement for a conventional transport helicopter—for which BE A issued a spec in 1951—to be met by American helicopters? British air expert I think you are taking rather a narrow view, if I may say so. The selling of aircraft is a two-way process, you know. Puzzled, Potters Bar Well why is it that the British aircraft industry hasn't been able to meet the Navy's requirement for a Sea Vixen replacement, and is allowing the Fleet Air Arm to import American Phantoms? British air expert I think you are taking rather a narrow view, if I may say so. The selling of aircraft is a two-way process, you know. Puzzled, Potters Bar Well why is it that British aircraft manufacturers have allowed American manufacturers to fulfill 90 per cent of the British demand for private and executive aircraft, which are being imported at the rate of 100 a year? British air expert I think you are taking rather a narrow view, if I may say so. The selling of aircraft is a two-way process, you know, you know, you know, you know . . • The Boeing 733 supersonic airliner project will be "in the same economic bail park" as the subsonic jets, according to Boeing. So the comparative ATA-formula open5 ting-cost curves are going to be as far apart as the length of the Yankee Stadium? Buu, you'd better start building some smaller ball parks. ROGER BACO
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