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440 FUGHT International, (9 March (944 (T) Straight and Level • Programme for a conference on high energy physics organized by the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society:— 9.45 a.m. High energy neutrino experi- ments 11.15 a.m. COFFEE 11.45 a.m. Weak interactions 1.15 p.m. LUNCH 2.15 p.m. Resonance situations 3.45 p.m. TEA • From VK Notam 65-7511964:— "Map SE 47/138, Edition 2: Change spot elevation 2690ft at 44°65'N 06°45'E to 8264ft." I am glad that this fairly substantial mistake didn't kill anybody. Instead of having these often misleading spot heights on our maps can't we have contour enve- lopes? It might well mean fewer people flying into high ground. Are you all right? No 35 The result of a Hart landing on top of an Oxford at RAF South Cernty in May 1940. Everyone was all right, though the Hart pilot had a rotten headache. Sent by Captain D. T. Arundel, BEA WE receive droves of vacuous pressreleases but never one as empty asthat which arrived from a staid professional institution the other day. On a foolscap sheet, elegantly headed NEWS RELEASE, there was precisely nothing save the date stamp of our post room. Was this, we wondered, a new develop- ment in space? Or was it a new write-your- own-press-release PR technique? Mystified, we asked Mr Jack Freelunch, director of Freelunch & Handout Associ- ates, the public relations counsellors, what he thought. "A splendid gimmick, old boy. The highest aspiration of PR men these days is to get a mention in Straight and Level." # Across a Flight International traffic questionnaire sent out in connection with our forthcoming special issue was scrawled by New Zealand Tourist Air Travel of Auckland, New Zealand: "Too hard for a "bush airline operator to fill in." Which reminds me of the joke in an old De Havilland Gazette which went some- thing like this:— "Can you let me have an operating cost curve for the Beaver?" "Cost curve for the Beaver? My dear chap, we build this aircraft for the sort of people who can't read and who come in for a shave once a year." <• I would like to draw the attention of my readers to an incredibly ingenious plan. •Guess what the USAF has thought up to reduce costs? A new primary trainer powered by a piston engine. This is such a logical idea I am amazed tthat nobody has ever thought of it before. ... Yes, just about A USAF Globemaster ot an RNZAF open day at Auckland when visitors created a CG problem • Why is HMG dragging its feet over ratification of the 1955 Hague Protocol, which gives airline passengers the right to claim up to £6,000 in the event of death ? Britain, it seems, is waiting for the Ameri- cans to decide what to do. Secretary of State Tusk "Did you say those goddam Limeys want to ratify the Vague Protocol?" ADC "Yes sir. Mr Tusk sir." Secretary of State Tusk "I guess well have to tear up the Polaris deal." ADC "No need sir. We only gave them simulated warheads." Secretary of State Tusk "Fine work son. Have one of these Cuba cigars." • What a debt this country owes Dr Barnes Wallis, and how unlikely it is that he will ever receive the full international recognition that is his due. How galling to be one of the great scientists of one's time and then to find that Hansard, in its report of the Air Estimates debate, can't even spell your name right. • "How is it that a country like the USA can authorize, finance, design, develop, manufacture and flight-test a dozen enormous 2,000 m.p.h. aircraft without a word leaking out?"—From last.week's issue. My friend Major Vladimir Sergei Foboff- sky comments: "This was a rotten beastly thing for the Americans to do. The Americans are engaging in tactics com- pletely contrary to all established principles of the cold war. We are the ones who do everything in secret. The balance of world power is dreadfully upset and so am I." • "The heat barrier is more difficult to overcome. It starts about 1,500 m.p.h. when the air friction begins to melt the aluminium from which the aircraft are built."—From the Daily Mail. Captain: "What is our speed now, first officer?" First Officer: "1,500 m.p.h., sir and the wings are beginning to melt." Captain: "Indeed? The Daily Mail was right! This is going to be difficult to over- come." ROGER BACON
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