FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1964
1964 - 2346.PDF
If LIGHT International, 3 September 1964 353 (T) Straight and Level BAD news about the flying display atFarnborough. All flying, withoutexception, has been banned. I quote from a Ministry of Aviation Notam No 474: "During the periods 1300-1730 from 7th-13th September, 1964, inclusive, no aircraft shall be flown below FL 150 within a radius of 5 NM centred on Farnborough Aerodrome excluding that part which would infringe the London Terminal Control Area). Regulations will be made under Article 57 of the Air Navigation Order 1960 to enforce these restrictions." No aircraft ? • The other morning we telephoned Fokker for an engineering cutaway drawing of the F.28 jet Fellowship. Three hours later we received a call from KLM's parcels office at London Heathrow. The drawing had arrived. Not within three days, three weeks or three months, but within three hours. Good PR doesn't sell aircraft, and like slothful, negative PR it very often goes un- noticed by management. But in my experi- ence the firms with good PR are usually the ones with the long order books. NEW RED WAR THREAT By Chipfish Punchup, Daily Excess "Russian trawlers, really are trawlers. The electronic equipment on board 'oscil- lates' at what boffins call the natural frequency of the sperm whale. This tem- porarily stuns all sperm whales within a radius of five miles. "The trawlers then winch the 80ft monsters on board and expert Soviet experts immediately give them a metallic coat of quick-drying paint. The whales are then shipped back to the Soviet Union for con- "Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am sorry that the TSR.2 will not be appearing in today's SBAC flying display, but if you turn your heads now towards the Laffan's Plain end of the airfield you will see, streaking in low at terrific speed, Britain's latest bid for mastery of the skies . . ." Cross-country race at Brooklands, 1913. Published in "Flight" for June 28, 1913. version into bombers. Purpose of the exercise? It is part of a sinister Kremlin conspiracy to sabotage the West's air superiority. The fact is that metal-coated sperm whales exhibit the same radar characteristics as the Red Air Force's Bounder, Blinder, Bear and Badger bom- bers." • "Disastrous" was the word used by Mr Anthony Milward, BEA's chairman, when asked last week what would be the effect of jet competition on UK domestic-route economics. "I don't think there is any |Never before has this column published a puff, but there is a first time for everything. Do not fail to visit the Scruggs Aircraft stand at the SBAC Show to see this remarkable flew project. Why the unfurled umbrella, and the shaving mirror? "It's all explained in 'he brochure," explained a Scruggs spokesman Monsieur Villard's apparatus, described on pages 27 and 28 of "Flying" for December 1901. need for jets on domestic routes," he said. For three or four years past, as you know, I have been going on about the possibility of jet competition ruining UK domestic-route economics. I am glad that Mr Milward has spoken so strongly against domestic jets, and so strongly in favour of the economic stability of evenly balanced turboprop competition. But the licences of BEA as well as those of British Eagle have been endorsed for jets by the Air Transport Licensing Board. I wonder why Mr Milward doesn't apply to the ATLB, as the licensing Act-enables him to do, to revoke Eagle's UK route jet endorsements and at the same to surrender his own ? • The British aircraft industry was "disap- pointed" that the New Zealand Govern- ment had decided to order the Lockheed Orion for the RNZAF in preference to British aircraft. This is what the new Second Permanent Under-Secretary for the Royal Navy, Mr A. L. M. Cary, is reported to have said in Wellington recently. Mr Cary reassured New Zealanders, how- ever, that there would be no rancour, and he said that New Zealand's membership of the Commonwealth did not oblige her to buy British goods. Which is just as well because, as Coastal Command is painfully aware, British in- dustry has nothing that the New Zealanders could buy instead of the Orion. • "Of course we are efficient—we need to be with a management like ours." ROGER BACON
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
