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1975
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FLIGHT International, 2 January (975 22a fCrr&tf' (O Straight and Level Q It's aviation that did it—aviation I tell you. Do you hear me, Chancellor? Curses, the line's gone dead again. • "PARIS, DECEMBER 4 REUTER. A member of the French Parliament has complained that the Concorde's flight manual is in English. M Pierre Bas told the Government's Transpor tation Office that there should be a French version. "The Government has assured him that a French version will be produced for Air France. "English is the language of inter national aviation, and as the Paris newspaper Le Monde pointed out today, Moliere has already scored one victory over Shakespeare—Con corde has' a French name." • "Management only" signs in car parks and washrooms are still evident in some of the less imaginatively managed and democratic British fac tories, as mentioned not five minutes • A young Royal Navy officer candi date was being interviewed by a flotilla of admirals. "What will the Royal Navy need to support the Harrier?" they asked. "Aircraft carriers," he replied. A future admiral, T would have thought. In fact he was severely reprimanded. • Overheard on, the R/T as British Airways' first TriStar taxied in at Heathrow: "What's that then, the Trident 4?" • The Court Line Group had debts amounting to £27 million. One assumes that most of this was attributable to air holidays, and was incurred between! delivery of the first TriStar in April 1973 and the first cash crisis 15 months later. How could any management, even allowing for the Middle East War, the oil crisis and the coups in Cyprus, Portugal and Greece, and the frightful say old chap, haven't you . . . IT'S an exceptionally hot day here in Melbourne. Yes Bruce, it's a glorious summer Bruce. "Thomson bowls. Oh! oh! he's bowled him. Greig's out! Greig's out for only two runs. Well Bruce, there's no hope for England now . . . Turn the wireless up, TURN IT UP, demanded my wife one icy English December morning before the 7 o'clock news. She usually hates the news, but loves Test cricket commen taries for their evocations of summer. All the way from Australia, actu ally as it is happened—and it was on colour telly too. What industry can give society more than live cricket at 6-30 a.m. on a December morning? "South Wales Evening Post," December 11 A Pan AmericaiT^spoltesman said: "The 707 was lifted by the wind and ran down the side of the 747. The wing tip of the Every time we try to get the smaller 707 was broken off. two aircraft apart more of the fuselage of the Jumbo jet is ripoing." reading from here. The other day I had lunch in the Rolls-Royce Small Engines Division restaurant, which used to be the management club. It has a cocktail bar, tablecloths, wine list and waitresses. The difference nowadays is that anyone, from boardroom to shop floor, can use it. Even the lowliest gear-flange-bracket support- plate knurling-machine operator is entitled to have lunch there. I even recognised one or two management chaps. • Another sign of the workers' repression of the upper classes. An aircraft industry union official—let's call him Joe Bloggs—writes tetters to the Minister starting Dear Tony. The Minister writes back—no, not Dear Joe, but Dear Mr Bloggs. Top Kneddy Good heavens, only £20 for a private pilot instrument test? Make it £100 laddie. Bottom Kneddy But Sire, that will stop private pilots from even consider ing instrument ratings, and what about safety? Top Kneddy You have the safety of your job to think of. Get your hair cut. . . . got it a bit rich? (see item below) weather, have got its sums so wrong? How could the Civil Aviation Authority have failed to see, hear and smell the burning? • Looking at the 1958 photograph of 707 pollution reminds me how quickly all the minuses became pluses. The first 707s couldn't even reach New York from London. By 1964 they flew non-stop and non-smoking to California with nearly double the pay load. Noise? The 707 is as quiet as Concorde, isn't it? Top Kneddy What is drag? Bottom Kneddy Well you multiply half the relative density of the air in slugs per cubic metre by the square of the speed and various other Greek graffiti. Top Kneddy I thought it was the cap tain impersonating the stewardess. "British Airways News," December yn^^o^^Snurruou^improvement ln customer service ranging from major innovations such as gate-check-in and an almost all-pier operation to serving tints with drinks on hoard, we have set the pace
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