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824 FLIGHT International, 12 November ight and Level THINK of the alternatives, the expertexperts say about the Concorde. Weought to be building a 700-seat, ultra-low-cost short-haul transport, or something, instead. To build a 700-seat airliner would be about as sensible as going for Mach 7. Air transport develops in stages, not by huge leaps. A Mach 7 airliner or a 700-seat airliner in 1999, yes; but not as an alter- native to the Concorde. In any case by 1999 the Indians, for one, will have caught up in the manufacture of subsonic transports. Britain and her European friends have got to stay ahead, and that isn't jingosim. • "Congratulating Manchester on its 'imagination and courage' in erecting a memorial at the airport to Alcock and Brown, Dr William Chad wick unveiled the symbolic naked figure of a man in flight. "Commented 22-year-old Mr Glyn Sut- cliffe, an airline operations officer of Middleton, near Manchester, 'It is not beautiful, but what is beautiful about battling across the Atlantic in a primitive plane?' "Said Mrs Brenda Shuttleworth, of Altrincham Road, Wythenshaw, Man- chester, it is not a thing I would bring my daughter to see'."—from a news report. • Whoever would have thought that the turboprop re-engining market, first attacked by Napier with the Eland Convair in 1955, would have come to life again in 1965 ? It may be premature to say that Rolls- It's absolutely you—No 16 The contemporary caption in "Flight," August 24, 1912, read: "C. P. Pizey at the Army tests on Salisbury Plain, his headgear being reminiscent of his trip to Turkey. The centre ornament is not a Turkish Order, however, but just a barograph" Now it is the WRAF girls' turn to tell the photographers what to do. How about "Co and take a spontaneous, unposed, running jump at yourself?" The surviving Wellington T.IO at Biggin Hill, during preparations for RAF Battle of Britain Day, 1964 Royce, whose 3,000 s.h.p. Dart 10 has breathed new life into an idea that was as good as dead three years ago, are on the verge of a great breakthrough. Neverthe- less, it says a lot for the Dart and for the Convair airframe ("the best ever built," as Mr Ansett has described it) that two shrewd Texas local-service lines should have decided against a new jet, and signed for Dart Convairs. It takes a lot of guts to say "turboprop" when salesmen for the HS.l 36 and Dassault Mystere 30C small jet transports are knocking at your door, and when Braniff are about to operate One-Elevens on Dallas - Houston. Both the HS.l36 and the Mystere 30C, incidentally, are scheduled to have Rolls-Royce RB.172s. So the British engine company seems to have its bets pretty well hedged. • "Musi the airworthiness authorities be guided solely by what is statistically demon- strable ? Should they not also be guided by commonsense ?"—From a reader's letter, October 29. That is one of the best questions that has ever been asked about air safety. If the answer is NO, how did the British airworthiness authorities justify their deci- sion to clobber old aircraft performance? There was no statistical evidence that these old aircraft were crashing all over the place. The point is that the action was taken on the grounds of commonsense. I applaud it, just as I would applaud action on JP.4 on grounds of commonsense. • Sir Charles Boost, chairman of Plum- met Air Lines, presented his annual report and accounts at the British Imperial Air Power Club, Mayfair, yesterday. "One of my biggest headaches," declared Boostie, "are these auditor twits who keep fidgeting me saying you can't do this, you can't do that. Raspberries to them, I say! "In this year's accounts I have made a special provision for £100 million to cover all our operating costs over the next five years. All this has gone into our accumu- lated deficit, which is now running at a record level, greater indeed than that of any other world airline. This is a splendid achievement for Plummet and indeed for this grand old country of ours. Our deficit will, of course, all be written off. "When my auditor refused to sign I just gave him a good jab with the fine point- some may saV sharp point—of my ballpoint pen." • A warning notice in the CC-106 Yukon flight simulator building at RCAF Trenton, Ont :— Achtung! Der Computenmaschine is nichl fur Gefingenpoken und Mittengrabben. /*' easy schnappen der Springenwerke, Blowen- fusen and Poppenkorken bei das Dumkopfen- Das Rubbernecken, - Sightseeren, keepen Hans in das Pockets, relaxen und vatch das Blinken Lights. • "BOAC's medical department continued to provide first-aid facilities for all passen- gers."—From BOAC's annual report. ROGER B-^ON
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