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72 FLIGHT International, 12 January Straight and Level AWARM WELCOME back to Mr JohnStorehouse, the new Minister ofAviation—soon to be Minister of State (Aviation), MoTech. As deputy to Mr Roy Jenkins in 1965 he was one of the best Ministers our suf- fering British aviation has had to suffer. He did more to get the neddies of Whitehall to encourage aviation exports in an organised way than anyone before or since. He might even yet pull off that Super VC10 deal with MEA. • The other day, while doing some research into traffic growth at London Heathrow, I came upon an exciting piece of news- The Ministry of Town and Country Manning is proposing a rail link to Heathrow, with a spur from the Victoria- Feltham line. The date? Flight, June 19, 1947. • How about this then? "We believe that, by and large, British civil servants are conscientious, able, and often of formidable intellect. . . . These are valu- able qualities . . . but we believe that they are no longer sufficient in them- selves to provide the Civil Service that Ah! the sweet nostalgia of that never-to-be-recaptured moment—No 19 What? which squadron? where? when? Prints of this picture will be sent by Uncle Roger to the first six correct respondents Brain drain? What brain drain? An extract from the News of Members in the December issue of the Royal Aeronautical Society Journal. See also this week's Letters, page 56 we need. . . . There is excessive secrecy. ... At times it almost seems that the whole structure of British Government is designed to protect the policy-making functions of Government from public scrutiny." An extract from any issue of Flight since about 1067? No—this is part of the evidence submitted by the Labour Party to the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service. It is said to have been endorsed by the Prime Minister and some members of the Cabinet. Things are looking up. Whirlwind of the RAF Central Flying School on a ridge on Y Uiwedd in Snowdonia. The small CFS detachment based at Valley specialises in mountain-flying and I believe has now put the British Services ahead of the French, Canadians and Americans, who have long been regarded as the leading exponents of mountain flying • I would like to add to the sum of human knowledge about public relations officers. A company's PRO should occupy a special position—answerable to the chief executive, with direct access to him at any hour of the day or night. It is no good putting a PRO under the sales director, for example. And the best man is not necessarily the one who "gets on well with people," even those in the company. He is the one who, bestriding the two different worlds of industry and the Press (and often being one of us rather than one of them), gets on well with, and is trusted by and trusts, air correspondents. I sometimes wish that managements would consult us lot before they do their PRO-shuffling. We are the experts on the subject. No, Haskiae, this definitely isn't the Battersea He Heart • Thinking again about the proposed merger between BAC and HSA, which is possibly the daftest proposal in the entire history of British Government, which is saying something, I think that ASH-CAB is quite good and CASHBAC even better; but how about CASBAH? It might help those Middle East sales. • Mr Peter Masefield, chairman of the British Airports Authority: "The world is divided into two sorts of people— those who agree with you, and the blind' ignorant, prejudiced fools." ROGER BACON
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