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822 Q) Straight and fLIGHT International. 20 November 1969 FROM the Daily Express: "American pilots can earn up to £29.000 a year for flying the 747 because of the greatly increased responsibility of operating such an expensive machine carrying more than 350 passengers." I wonder what would happen if the air traffic controllers had as good a PRO as the pilots? If you deserve more money simply because you're flying bigger aeroplanes shouldn't you deserve more money for controlling bigger aeroplanes? "nuetoHv west before I [turning south (at present I they loop and turn south | lover Surrey). "Surrey Advertiser," October 24 • According to the BBC television news on November 6 the Syrians have issued a special stamp to commemorate the hi jacking of the TWA Boeing to Damas cus. To stick on envelopes containing letters of protest to me for what 1 am about to call them? Almost as nasty is the behaviour of the Italian Government for not promptly returning that latest TWA hijacker whence he came. If civilised countries cannot extradite between friends then we shall never stamp this menace out. • But what, I enquired eagerly. Is the acceptable noise level? "In aviation," replied the expert, "the acceptable level is always the level we have reached now." OK boys . . . When North American make good aeroplanes they're very good aeroplanes, and when they make bad aeroplanes they're still pretty good aeroplanes. This one is, so far, the best of the lot • How nice to see you. my dear Blackie. How are the Scruggs cost controllers today? —Well actually. Minister, that's what I've come to see you about. We've run into a little trouble with the Wonder- plane. We need another £500 million. Try these smelling salts—a free whiff with every Scruggs cost estimate. You told us it would only cost £25 million. You said that was the cost, in the professional judgment of your tech nical people and all that. WHAT HAPPENED? —Well you see. Minister . . . . . . How's this grabya'. . . . Don't tell me. Don't tell me. You have run into unforeseen technical difficul ties which are inevitable when pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and the state of the art in advanced tech nological projects and all that stuff. —Well, actually, no. What happened was this. We reckoned that if we came to you in the first place with a project costing £500 million we wouldn't have a hope of getting it through. So we quoted a ridiculously conservative figure in the certain knowledge you and your chaps would accept it and that once the project was launched we could come along and get the real figure. —My dear Blackie, how well you know me! Here lad, have this cheque for £500 million. And if you need more come back any time. You are making a splendid contribution to my efforts to stamp out the aircraft industry. • "VANCOUVER - CP Air has zeroed in on the needs of its customers with the creation of a new Customer Service Department," says the press release from the Canadian airline. Does it mean that the cabin staff have nothinged in on the passengers? O The human body "requires fuel just as much as an aero engine does," writes a Flight reader. Rollo Freelunch, my favourite PRO. wants to know whether he can have a little more information. As much fuel as an Olympus? Or a Walter Mikron? I wouldn't know, but we're having lunch anyway. Left. Mrs Harriet Quimby. an intrepid American lady of the iky. About the same year as, right. Mrs William Covin, 1911 fU^jM- TjA^vr^
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