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1971
1971 - 0039.PDF
FLIGHT International 7 January 1971 tcaifah lid Up Available immediately all assets of Bahamas Airways, in litjui.ia.[Tf.ri. ir.rliHinK two (' 17 aircrafl with :',n pass. I.c'-:: interior-,. llC-'.t From an advertisement in "Aviation Week" It's ail right if you aren't a daustrophob 1SB0UT the Civil Aviation Authority, fi\ who is going to be chairman? He must obviously be an avia tion man, preferably a pilot. He should have worked for BOAC or BEA, and for an independent airline as well. He should be Labour; after all, 75 per cent of the industry is State-owned, and such an appointment would win con fidence. He should have served in Government as a Minister responsible for civil aviation; he should also have a generally civilised and cultivated all-round view of life, and be respected and liked by one and all. There is such a man. ".Si'k •...'.. • „••-. '..^.. .• ....... ,. v • . -t . . . I prefer a bit of fresh air tnyself- chance . . . -and the • Aviation not only has good manners but is now showing them oil a bit more. From a Tube Investments press release: "By introducing Reynolds 531 tube, Vessa Ltd have been able to introduce a range of folding wheelchairs for invalids which are 20 per cent lighter than conventional designs . . The idea of using this tube came from a senior Vessa engineer with a background of experience in the aircraft industry." The company sent me this follow ing my piece on Nasa's "eyeball" con trol for invalid chairs. Keep it up chaps, people are beginning to listen. How about an SB AC Value Engineering exhibition in which each member company can not only show 0 My first picture shows the Atlantic-Napier designed and entered for for the "Daily Mail" Atlantic air race of 1919. Those two chaps are not the passengers bet the pilot and navigator. So far as I know it didn't compete. My second picture is of the cab of the Royal Navy airship SSZ of about 1915. Finally the llya Murumetz, a development of the Sikorsky Grand of 1913 (the world's first multi-engined airliner), on flight tesc in Russia. The designer. Igor Sikorsky, is still active in the USA to get up and stretch one's legs Top Secret MINISTRY OF PLANES Internal Memorandum Dale: January 1, 1971 Your attention is drawn to the increasing number of requests for-the expenditure ot public money. Officials are reminded that they are expressly forbidden to disclose any information whatsoever about such expenditure to any person, including the Minister. In wishing you all a Happy New Year I would like to extend my warm personal thanks to Mrs Gladys Crunge of Cancellations Directorate Bought Ledger (2) in Boom 69o324, who wins a £50 cash prize for the Best Suggestion of the year. Mrs Crunge thought up the idea of our guaranteeing money raised by private companies, an example being the Air Holdings "purchase." of 50 Lockheed Trusthouses. This enables us to tell everyone that no public money is involved and that any details are a commercial matter for the private company concerned. Bottom Secret ' S 1 see ihiit American Airlines now offering four-abrcast sealing 707 economy class in response Lniteil's introduction of four-abii in its DC-Rs. What bad luck on the 7-fi that it gienlest contribution to air travel ha been to iiurcase the appeal of it keenest competitors. • "There is also a nonsense," says 'Hie Economist, "in subsidised air flights being run iiv competition with subsidised British Bail." Nonsense indeed, particularly as Ihe subsidised air llights are not in fact subsidised. ire in to :isl the value il is giving for public money wilh this sort of fall-out but can sell it to industry as a whole. » A USAF B-52 (hat took part in the recent bombing competition with the RAT's Vulcans was adorned with a pink panther and pink external em broidery. Not only that, but the crews wore matching pink uniforms. Never mind whether their bombs were painted pink as well, duckie—. they Won. /cV^r- O^ctn^
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