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FUCHT International, 31 July 1969 (M Straight and 188a To the Aeromodel* lers' Meeting . . . from the Swiss magazine "Aero Revue") Just how low can you get?—No 23 . . Charlotte Motor Speedway, North Carolina) (Goodyear airship takes off near the ment of the problem on which disin terested observers build a restatement of the same problem. In public discussion an interpretation of a re-statement is attempted and a new re-statement emerges structured on to the inter pretation. In government and outside government there is a continual and parallel process of restating restated statements .. ." lasted 14 days. The Soviet Union \ put two does into orbit in 1066 for i 22 days, and after their recovery I DADDY, WAKE ME UP AT 3 O'CLOCK read the note which my nine-year-old daughter tied on my wrist as she was banished to bed just after Eagle landed on the Moon, July 20, 1%9. At about 0315hr, after the hatch had been opened, I nipped into her room, gathered her up in the darkness, and was back in my armchair with her on my knee. My son, 12, and wife followed us down. We wanted our children to remember the night they were brought down, half asleep, to watch the greatest wonder I suppose they or their children will ever see. My daughter liked Aldrin's kangaroo hops best, and my son the way the two astronauts came to attention when the President came on the phone. I think they appreciated the wonder of it all, though it shakes me how much they take for granted the way we watched and heard it as it actually happened. The communications where withal have been developed in the life time of my daughter, who was born in the month—April 1960—that Blue Streak was first proposed as the basis of ELDO. • Dr Ronald Smelt, chief scientist of Lockheed and president of the Aircraft Industries Association of America, writes in Astronautics and Aeronautics:— "Concorde, in particular, represents quite a remarkable historical achieve ment. I wonder whether we here in the United States, and particularly in the technical community, can appreciate fully the tremendous engineering and political effort in Europe which has brought together the French and British peoples —rivals since the Hundred Years War— in a singularly effective partnership to advance air transportation." And we have done it despite the loss of I don't know how many men like Dr Smelt. He used to be head of the Guided Weapons Department at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. • Mr V. J. Addtici of the AIAA has also got something important to say— or not, as the case may be. The so-called Military-Industry complex in the United States, he says, is not diabolical or sec retive but exemplifies "the open, dyna mic, fail-safe relationship between two viable segments of our society." • Which OuchSpeak reminds me of Mr Worcester, who thinks we need "better definition of a problem group." He goes on:— "Interested parties begin with a state- From "The Irish Times," June 30 • "Nor do I think," says Mr Wedgwood Benn, talking about collaboration, "that the so-called design leadership issue has been as important as has often been suggested." And, so thinking, he and his pre decessors have given design leadership away every time to the Germans or the French, to whom it is the most important issue of all. • When a visitor to the Cranfield Show made the none-too-original crack that the Skyvan—which was fitted out as a flying showroom—had aerodynamics resembling those of a shed, a Shorts man replied: "Do you mind—it flies better than Earls Court." fdrfM-- O^tOTv "If we don't get a take-off clearance soon I'm going back to the ramp" retired B-47s at the Dayis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona) . (some of the 1,000 MftS
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