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222 FLIGHT International, 6 August 1964 Straight and Level (^£) A\NOTHER dangerous possibility couldoccur when supersonic planes areflying over mountainous areas. A standard method of precipitating controlled avalanches is to trigger them off by noise vibrations from rifle shots or small explosive charges. Could not less controlled avalanches be caused by supersonic bangs ? "Even technological advance would not justify a French mountain village's being engulfed because of a passing Concord flying from London to Rome."—From a letter in The Sunday Telegraph. A Ministry of Planes spokesman com- ments : "This is, of course, a problem which will be given the most careful attention, now that you have mentioned it. That's all I can say at the moment, dear boy. Frankly we're a bit snowed under at the moment." OLD MOORE BACON September 1, 1965 Pan American orders 20 Boeing Super 707-820s (230 passengers, 7,000 miles range, BLC flaps, etc). September 2, 1965 TWA, Air Canada, Air France, Lufthansa, Japan Air Lines, etc, etc, order Douglas Super DC-8s and Boeing Super 707s. September 15, 1965 BOAC announces £50m requirement for 15 Boeing Super 707-820s "to retain competitive position." October 31, 1965 Components of last BOAC Super VC10 mothballed on Weybridge production line. November 15, 1965 Big Cabinet Row— BOAC's proposed order for Boeing Super 707-820s rejected. September 1, 1966 BOAC chairman sees Minister. Resignation ? New Air Crisis Rumours. March 2, 1967 Influential weekly Fright Unintentional reports:— 1. Chronic shortage of BOAC aircraft. Ugly scenes as overbooked passengers stone BOAC's HQ at London Airport. 2. All BOAC's competitors flying to Sydney, Tokyo, etc, with only one intermediate stop. "IfDr Beeching does a Guthrie to British Railways we are going to lose our grandstand" Spectators at a 8/ockp»o/ flying meeting, 1910 3. BOAC's partners threatening to with- draw from pooling agreements. Why should we subsidize BOAC? ask CO. Turner, B. R. Patel, Freddie Laker, etc. October 16,1967 Big Airline Fares Row- Minister backs BOAC's protest to IATA "We can't afford these 20 per cent fare cuts." American CAB chairman talks of "foreign airlines preventing American free enterprise from lowering fares." May 15, 1967 BOAC chairman publicly threatens to resign unless allowed to order 15 Boeing Super 7O7-82Os. September 1,1967 BOAC announce order for 15 Boeing Super 707-820s "pending construction of suitable British aircraft," etc, etc, etc. • For the first three shows that the Dove appeared at Farnborough we found some- thing new to say about it. For the next three appearances we simply noted that it was there. For the next I don't know how many times we noted that it was still there, that it was the SBAC Show's oldest inhabitant. Surely it could not appear again in 1964, in its 18th Show. The company has changed, the Show has changed, the times have changed and two decades have gone by. But guess what the former de Havilland company is showing at Farnborough this year? There has never been such a successful British transport aeroplane. • Caught on a page-proof:— "The Minister said that in April 1963 the ten chairman of BOAC had said . . ." So now Bristol Siddeley has a Conway too. ROGER BACON If you know which way the wind's blowing in the helicopter business , you can get away with pretty well anything
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