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1016 FLIGHT International, 14 December I9y| (T) Straight and Level CONCORDE ELECTRIC BLANKET, it Saidon the box in the window ofBoots chemist, St Albans branch. I think I shall send one to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer for Christmas, with the instruction Do Not Fold. • "Pensioners preparing to visit their grandchildren in Australia and New Zealand this Christmas have been told they risk losing £336, due to devalua- tion . . . "An official at Qantas—the airline concerned—said today . . . 'We know of no concession that can be made for these unfortunate people. IATA regulations have to stand.'"—The Evening News, London, November 29. Yes, of course, how terribly tactless and ignorant of the Press even to ask. Surely these old folks are familiar with IATA regulations? Surely they know that the law of IATA stands above all else? I weep for poor Qantas at the cruel way this trade association treats the poor, helpless airlines. Ah! the sweet nostalgia—No 28 Hawker Horsley torpedo bombers of No 100 Squadron Donibristle, 1932 • It had to happen. The by-pass became the turbofan. The turbofan became the fanjet. Now the fanjet has become the FUNJET. Thrills the Bonanza Air Lines timetable: "Fun People Funjet to Fun Places on Bonanza Air Lines DC-9 Nonstop Funjets." A Straight and Level correspondent recently flew Bonanza's Funjet Com- muter service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The fun, he says, begins when you disembark: Las Vegas airport has row upon row of fruit machines. Even cargo finds the DC-9 fun—"Give your cargo a big lift on Bonanza DC-9 Funjets." ; —and that the Russians know this. They j point out, too, that the Mirages must | stop to refuel in mid-air in order to j make the trip, and are thus vulnerable: • attack. As for France's planned mis-j From "Time" for November 17 • A colleague overheard a BOAC pilot in a Heathrow snack bar on December 5 complaining bitterly to another about the train drivers' 53£hr work-to-rule. The previous day, he said, it had com- pletely upset his plans to take his boat around from Hamble to Shoreham. i vomm mm rmsr*m so tKfSKfttf mo nn£ cm m 55 YULES' fH», JIYWAT? SSffWfMSSSSjSSKKKKiKsYesterday strong demands $ were made by all parties in §the West German Parlia- i ment So force Lufthansa to jbuy the European airbus j instead' of Boeing. From the "Daily Express" for November 11 • Visitors temporarily blown off course in the civil aviation Corridors of Power may be a little surprised to hear people there talking about the Burns and Allen show. Of course, they could mean the eminent public servants engaged in civil aviation policy planning, rather than the well-known American comedy team. • A suggestion for the nearest air traveller. Take a long, world-wide economy trip tomorrow with, say, 19 kilos of registered baggage and a 5-kilo briefcase. Okay? You were charged excess baggage once in 50 trips abroad? Now try checking in the same baggage at Cromwell Road. You were charged every time? My experience precisely. Elsewhere, regardless of the rules, the rule seems to be 20 kilos registered, plus a briefcase. A few years ago BOAC used to charge for every drop of blood, but they have got more lenient lately. I suspect they noticed that some regular passengers went to their less rigid competitors. Our Christmas Book Choice Safety Second by Mrs Gladys Crunge, Penge Press, 21s. An anthology of the most smashingly superficial, sensational and scarifying public-inquiry newspaper headlines and reports of forensic oratory. Collected by Mrs Crunge, an air traveller interested in safe air travel. Left, Colonel Cody at (I think) the military aeroplane trials, Lark- hill, Salisbury Plain, August 1912 P^r QM«*
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