FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1967
1967 - 0039.PDF
•iT International, 5 January 1967 40a Qj Straight and Level A SITUATION in which a Britishaircraft designer—Sir GeorgeEdwards—will have to work with a former French police chief on the most complex civil aviation project in the world is certain to give rise to grave concern."—From The Sun, December 28. I suppose that in the interests of equality, which as everyone knows is what the e in Concorde stands for, we should put Dixon of Dock Green (or, even bstter, Rupert Davies of Maigret) in charge of the British side of the pro- gramme. No, on reflection I think that a helmet and a pair of big boots for each member of the Concorde team would be a perfectly adequate gesture. ENGLISH-FRENCH PHRASE-BOOK • Uncle Roger's Guide for British aircraft engineers trying to collaborate with their French colleagues and all that. Addressing a Policeman Pardonnez-moi, monsieur l'agent, mais voulez-vous me directer a la Place de la Concorde? —La place de la quoi? . La Place de la Concorde, monsieur. —Concorde? Concorde? Excusez-moi, mais je suis dtranger ici. • "Helicopters dropped 7,2001b of tear- gas powder into the Vietnam jungle, and troops swept in wearing gas masks, only to find no trace of any opponents. But that did not worry Major Dismore. It was an experiment, Major Dismore ex- plained. . . . 'Had the enemy been in there we could pretty well have knocked out his will to fight before we went in there'."—From the New Scientist. The strain of trying to keep Sierra Echo X-Ray out of this column has at last become too treat. Most registration authorities, including fie ARB, are celibate, but not so Australia's 'ess inhibited Department of Civil Aviation. The aircraft with the appeal is a Piper Twin Comanche at Bankstown, Sydney Wings and Water—No. 6 Short Scipio "Satyrus" four Bristol Jupiters) of Imperial Airways at rest on the Sea of Galilee in about 1933. This picture was used to illustrate an article by one Hudson Fysh in "Flight" for November 9, 16 and 23 of that year. In it he described the air journey from Austrqlia to London. Hudson Fysh, then managing director of Qantas, flew the Alexandria- Brindisi sector in "Satyrus", finding it after the Ensign and the H.P.42 like "some sumptuous yacht" • Mr Cranley Onslow, Conservative MP for Woking: "The Labour Party has always had a fundamental dislike and distrust of the aircraft industry. This was shown by the Minister of Defence in his reference to 'overgrown and mentally retarded child- ren.' It was shown by the Minister's predecessor in the cynical and calculated way in which he set about dismembering the industry. With delight, he did it. He came in as the hired assassin, as the 'Front Bench Bond,' licensed to kill, and he did the job with such enthusiasm and skill that he earned himself the title not of 007, but 707, in recognition of his services to the American aircraft in- dustry." • From The Times Washington corres- pondent's report of the Kettering school- boys' Soviet satellite-tracking exploits: "The fact that [Mr Perry's] young pupils did all this with Army-surplus equipment and a toy globe from the local stationery shop may bring some enquiries from the Budget Bureau, or perhaps the White House." • From BOAC's flight operations magazine Horizon: American overheard on VHF, replying to ATC query: "Well, I don't know what kind of turbulence you'd call it but we got white caps on our coffee." ROOER BACON 1 It took Lieutenant Hall ninety minutes to I*: fly the last twenty miles against tile is £ gale, and when he reached Achnasheen %he had to land backwards because of S From the "Daily Mirror," December 19, 1966 • What's gone wrong with BBC TV? Instead of asking Mary Gasring or Richard Worsted to take part in a, pro- gramme on the Concorde Twenty-four hours, December 28) they asked Mr Pat Burgess of BAC, who runs Concorde sales. Seriously, it was a refreshing change. Mr Burgess was asked some pretty tough questions, and came over impressively. Which isn't easy in the fleeting moments that TV allows you for crisp replies to unrehearsed and often loaded questions. It made me wish, as these programmes always do, that our system provided for this sort of spontaneous dialogue, but much deeper, between Parliament and the experts who are spending public money. From the "Southern Evening Echo," December 16, 1966 The Italian'alrline Alitalia HasG iiII he Itaanarlin•• been given Government permission :; to order four mammoth Boeing 747it was announced'£ "Jumbo Jets' :: last nl«ht.:: Three will be used for passengera
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
