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46 (y Straight and FLIGHT International, 6 January 1972 IAgain based on the author's calculations, it is not uncommon for light aircraft cabins to start to disintegrate and/or collapse on the occupants if the crash forces exceed 9 or 10 "g". And From the US Federal Aviation Administration Report AM-VI-3 FARNBOROUGH 72 will be different, with perhaps three supersonic airliners. There may even be some completely British aircraft. But why the emphasis still on planes? The real progress, the true wonders, and the PR message, are in the achievements of the avionics and systems companies. Why don't they get together to show what aerospace is really doing to make the world better, presented in an imaginative and popular way, per haps in a separate Man and Aero space pavilion? The public likes to see aeroplanes fly, but it has seen most of them be fore. It knows that aeroplanes can fly, and oh! the misery when the weather clamps. Give them an air display, cer tainly, but thrill and surprise and inspire them with what they're really paying their taxes for. So that's what they mean by fly-by-wire !«*J5!i • Do you believe the American defence expert who says that it costs 8,000 times more to shoot down an aircraft than it did in 1950? Blessed be the high cost of aviation for it shall price the world out of war. • I see that the Man Will Never Fly Society had its annual reunion on December 17, the anniversary of the day those two American bicycle makers started it all. I can think of a few people I would nominate for president. Incidentally Orville Wright, whom destiny chose to win the toss that day, would now be 100. Situations Vacant BLAME ENGINEERS wanted for new European collaborative aircraft pro jects. Immediate vacancies for air frame engineers, avionics specialists, aerodynamicists, stress analysts, etc, with proven experience of blaming Rolls-Royce for everything even when a Pratt & Whitney engine is fitted up side down back to front. Write to the Direktor General, Donnezmoi Flugzeug, Box 1972. MIRACLE GIANT SUPERSONIC JET PLANE ESCAPES DISASTER PLUNGE by Monty Orangeball A giant supersonic jet Moth miracu lously escaped disaster last night when the miracle plane's supersonic jets escaped a giant plunge. Disaster The plunge was caused by a giant housewife in one of the disaster plane's giant miracle jets at super sonic speed last night. Miracle And only a giant miracle will pre vent me from doing another story like this for tomorrow's edition. • Pottering amateurly around in a Cherokee the other day I was told off by the tower for taxying too fast. A few minutes later the traffic warden told a student off for doing rollers— What engine can swallow large chunks of metal airframe in flight and then be relit at Mach 1-2 and run up to 90 per cent r.p.m. looking like this? Answer: Rolls-Royce Bristol Olympus 593, following intake-ramp failure on Concorde 001 a year ago "touch and goes are not allowed with out an instructor's permission," he scolded. "I have an instructor's per mission," replied the student. Thinks Stick to your last, cobbler. Oh all right, I was taxying too fast. • From a recent BOAC press re lease: 'A pallet for BOAC customers is now being carried on the BEA Merchantman freighter operating from Belfast to London." Must be one of these new low-cost package tours. From the "Daily Telegraph," August 16, 1971 Near Prague, and at 35,000ft. Capt. Tbrben Wielandt, the second pilot, saw a Czechoslovak MiG fighter approaching on a collision course. Wielandt made I the Caravelle climb vertically I and the two aircraft passed each | other with 150ft to spare. • Reading the biographical notes on Lord Kings Norton, who has just re tired as chairman of the ARB after 50 years in aviation, I thought to myself there's a total aviation man for you. In that time he has done practically everything there is to do making aero planes. Just the sort of man the plane- hating neddies would ask to be president of the Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Research Association. You are not going to believe this, but he is president of the Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Research Asso ciation. jU4*r QflsCvh.
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