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1975
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FLIGHT International. 10 July 1975 66a (J) Straight and Level Q S.O. Triton of I9S0 reveals its undercarriage- retraction sequence THERE were six, not five, Spitfires at Duxford, where I attended on the Sunday. I had never seen so many Spitfires before. They didn't care about the run on the pound. Nor did the Lancaster, the music of whose Merlins made a change from the voices of trade union leaders telling me how my country should be run. What cared the Lancaster, or the B-17G, or the Swordfish, for revolting Tribune-group MPs or fat directors being driven to their free lunches in chauffeured XJ12s? Big fat zero. England on the brink of ruin? Disaster? Catastrophe? And all the other hack journalist and poli tician words? I'm fed up with all these monetary measures of life's quality. Wish I had £50,000 to buy Duxford's Spitfire Mk Vc. • And what cared Hawker Siddeley's Harrier G-VTOL, Farley up, as it operated on and off HM assault ship HAA . . . HAA . . . HAA . . . Halifax II some where in Lincolnshire, July 1943) . . . LESOTHO Airways Corporation a- chieved record traffic for 1974 — 1975 with total of 3,311 frights on ...u:-!. r> nnA „„„ ™H /^fi f\AQ from "The Comet," newspaper Lesotho's national Fearless in the Thames off Greenwich last week? Cocktails under the awning on the foredeck with the Admiral. Bowlers and gold braided caps on the serving table. A Royal Marine string orchestra playing a selection from "My Fair Lady" throughout the demonstration. The British will still have style even when the exchange rate is back in the pound's favour, as it will be. • Dr Reinhardt Abraham, technical director of Lufthansa, says that Con corde fares should be related to the cost of developing the aircraft. He can try to make Concorde go away by forcing competitors to price it out of the market. That's show business. But if financial philosophy is to be the ground of his argument could I ask him how much he would charge for his Boeing 707s, 727s, 737s and 747s if there had never been a US defence budget? He'd still be operating Zeppelins. • The airlines never asked the air craft industry for metal structures, flaps, retractable undercarriages, variable pitch, automatic pilots, elec tronic navaids, swept wings, jet engines, wide-bodies, or anything else. Technology, not the airline industry, decides what the passenger wants. Buy Concorde and like it. • A Concorde fitter from Weybridge was on holiday in the Isle of Wight. Driving past Bembridge Airport with his family he saw a sign "Pleasure Flights" showing over a hedge. He drove round the corner to en quire in the hangar how much for a half-hour family flip. "Family flip?" replied a white- overalled inhabitant incredulously. "Family flip? I'll have you know this is Britten-Norman . . ." • According to Mr Roy Watts of British Airways, "the costs of Shuttle are not such that Shuttle should be scuttled." In other words, the costs of Shuttle are not such that Scushle should be scuffled, I mean the shots of Scoffie are not shot blinge HELP. To sum up: I wish somebody would tell me what in hell is happening. . . . HAA . . . TISHOOI . . . (RAF Wessex, 1973)
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