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• inter lot/onol, 26 January 1967 150a ft Straight and Level Q^ [MINISTRY OF PLANES Oral Answers Cdr 3. Reheat (Savoy Grill South) Isked the Minister whether he had yet liade a decision on the Scruggs Variable- fost Wonderplane. Mr John Stonehenge-Doghouse My lepartment has decided—and who am I o disagree?—that the Wonderplane hould go ahead on a 50-50 basis with he French. Our French colleagues have leen very generous and will assume hnical and managerial leadership, hile we will be in charge of writing the anual on how to bleed the hydraulic |ystem. Wg Cdr Reheat How much will the Vonderplane programme cost? Mr Doghouse Preliminary depart- ed estimates, which are of course ubject to review, and are the respon- |ibility of a committee of officials . . . Hon Membeis Answer! Mr Doghouse Several hundred million ounds. ! Several hon Members rose— Mr Doghouse Okay, about twice that. \ Several hundred hon Members rose— Mr Speaker Order. Time is getting . We must not presume to trespass on the responsibilities and authority the Civil Service and the Executive. Lord Caldecote, engineer and anager, says: "It is a commonplace that stockbrokers have country ouses; but I do not think many eople believe that engineers have puntry houses. What are we going to1 about it?" | Stockbrokers have yachts and chauf- and flats in town and are held i great awe and respect by the Govern- nt and must never be offended, oh ear no, and they get nearly as many nighthoods as the kneddies and they •art at 11 o'clock and knock off at 3. [What are we going to do about it? a stockbroker, mate. Just how low can you get?—No 22 A boat-dropping de Havilland Caribou V— A special prize of a B.O.A.C. Comet 4 goes to A. | .Crichton, 7 Holmswood Avenue, Blantyre,; I Glasgow „ , „ From "Hotspur," January 14, 1967 • The purpose of the Air Transport Licensing Board, as everyone knows, is to further the development of British Rail. This must be why the Board says, in its remarkable decision on Tees- side services, that it is inclined to refuse licences for new domestic air services in favour of British Rail. I do not wish to be more beastly about the ATLB than is absolutely neces- sary, which means being fairly beastly, but I calculate—and I have the calcu- lations right here—that if the British Rail fare on the newly electrified London-Liverpool route were based on the total cost of that route, the fare would be £12 13s 6d—single. Coupled with the existing Speke- Knightsbridge time of 80 minutes by One-Eleven, the airlines could advertise "Half the time, half the price." •:l\ Wings and Water- No 7 Siemens-engined Klemm at the Deutsch- land Flug, Berlin, 1933 • Some of the Viet Cong guerillas in South Vietnam are not entirely au fait with aeroplanes. An RAAF de Havilland Caribou pilot landed at a Viet Cong- surrounded airstrip recently, looked out from his stationary aircraft and was horrified to find himself looking straight down the barrel of a Viet Cong gun on the jungle fringes of the strip. This is it, the pilot thought; but the Viet Cong gunner, remembering all he had been taught about lead-off when aiming at aircraft, carefully swung his gun around —one length, two lengths, and fired his shot harmlessly well in front of the Caribou. By the time he might have re-loaded, the Caribou had STOLed away. Cross my heart. LETTERS Scruggs House Sir,—There are two mentions of de Havilland in your column this week. Will you please not print the name de Havilland again. It gets on my nerves. J. BLACKOUT-JONES, [de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland, de Havilland—RB.] • I liked the story in The Times about the regular air traveller who collects those flight progress cards that are passed down the cabin. During, say, a domestic flight he takes special delight in passing on a London - New York card. The con- sternation this causes is often quite memorable. ROGER BACON
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