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FLIGHT International, 9 January 1969 76a Q Straight and I AM DELIGHTED that the Tu-144 has flown before the Concorde. I don't suppose more than about three people in the Government had ever heard of it. Or if they had, they thought it didn't really exist. Now they are experts on the Tu-144—and on the Concorde. • All this holiday promotion and ad vertising! Shouldn't we be putting the effort and money and skills that go into the air holiday industry into air services tyhich contribute to exports and the national economy? How much of the £40 million subsidy being provided for BEA is going into flying to Palma, etc, and how much into improving the service between London and Manchester, Birmingham and Paris? We aren't going to build Britain on holidays. I think I could do with a holiday. • Are the independents as safe as the corporations? This question was asked by Mr Cliff Michelmore in a BBC tele vision programme about holidays on January 2. Yes, he said—there had been only three fatal charter accidents in the last five years compared with six fatal scheduled accidents. I don't know what good such gross From the "Sunday Telegraph", December 29 I Colonel BWnian's remark: "It is = i not made of green cheese; it is made | I of American cheese ". He was, of | I course, joking, as befits, a triumahantJ Fully feathered finals I liked the caption which "The Times" gave this picture: "Edward Yelin, the test pilot, during yes terday's maiden flight of the Russian supersonic airliner, the Tu-144." In Moscow it is very cold in December, so they did the low flypast for the Tupolev workers through the hangar inexactitudes do either the BBC, the public or the independents. If Mr Michelmore's research team will turn to page 81 of the 1968 Board of Trade publication The safety performance of United Kingdom Airline operators they will read: "The second conclusion is that the accident rates of the independent operators in each of the five-year periods, as in the whole ten-year period, were significantly higher than those of the combined corporations and their safety levels were lower." The actual statistics are on page 83 of the same publication. ^c Illii .MMB • • An amazing new device for making aero-engines noiseless is under develop ment by Rissoles Aero-Engines Ltd. Dr Fredbert Clothears, head of the firm's market-engineering department, says the idea came to him when he woke up suddenly in his test-bed. The device is an acoustically treated cork which is pushed firmly up a plane's jet pipe before take-off. Preliminary parametric studies indicate that the in-, stallation reduces weight of a typical big jet airliner by 3,0001b and increases pay-- load by 12,0001b—depending, of course, on ambient temperature. •. Mr William Rodgers, who isn't doing the job at the Board of Trade that Mr Mallalieu didn't do, hopes that "nobody will challenge the good faith of the Government" towards the independents. How could he for one moment imagine that anyone had ever doubted it? • Air Holdings have recently re designed their AH symbol—"logo" as the image-makers call it. At a recent Athens Hilton conference the new AH was assiduously promoted in every conceivable way—on brochures, book matches, handouts, publicity material, wrappers, carrier bags, etc, etc. Said one delegate, "These boys really care. I shall recommend all my friends to stay at this hotel." ICfr^UT- Xj^Otn^.
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