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1976 - 0004.PDF
4 WORLD NEWS WEU urges joint arms buying A European military-aircraft pro curement agency is urged in the Western European Union's latest resolutions to its ministerial council. WEU, with 17 European member nations, believes itself to be a better focus for such an arrangement than the nine-member Common Market, Nato (15 members, including the USA and Canada), or Eurogroup (which excludes the USA and Canada, but also Portugal, Iceland and, signifi cantly, France). The WEU resolution stresses the need for standardisation in the design and procurement of weapons and sug gests that the Scandinavian countries should be invited to participate. A major conference on European aero space and military procurement is planned for 1976. Interflug crash crew gaoled The crash of an Interflug Tu-134 at Leipzig on September 1, 1975, which resulted in the death of 24 passengers and three cabin crew, has been attributed to human error. The air craft descended below the glidepaith and struck a radio mast. An East German court has sentenced the captain to five years in prison and the co-pilot, navigator and radio officer to three years each. Tempair serves Mozambique Using 707-32OCs for the first time, British wet-lease operator Tempair is to offer a thrice-weekly Lourenco Marques-Beira-Accra-Lisbon service on behalf of Deta Mozambique (see World News for November 27, 1975). Worth $4-5 million (£2-2 million) in the first year, the contract includes a full wet lease and the training of Deta crews. The fanrjet 707s will be operated in Deta's colours and Will be fitted with a 167-seat "all-economy" layout. Flight understands that the airline hopes to extend the route to Nairobi later. French unions versus America Two French unions, the Force Ouvriere and the Confederation Generate des Cadres, have issued a statement objecting to US resistance to Concorde operations. The unions ask America to recog nise "with fair play" that European technicians are the equal of those in the USA, and to allow Concorde to operate there, thus avoiding serious damage to French-US friendship. Public-transport accidents A TWA 707 crashed on landing in fog at Milan Malpensa on December 22. The aircraft, on a scheduled flight from New York, was carrying 113 passengers and nine crew. The nose of the aircraft broke off behind the forward cabin door and the wings and engines separated as the aircraft slid across the grass. Two flight crew and one of the cabin staff were seriously injured and 30 passengers suffered minor injuries. • The port wing of Swissair DC-8, HB-IDK, was damaged on November 11 when the aircraft was taxied into the wrong terminal bay and struck ground equipment. • A 707 of British Caledonian Air ways (operating in conjunction with Bangladesh Biman Airways) made an emergency landing at Gatwick on The RB.2I I can now be shipped on standard freight pallets in the freight holds of wide- bodied airliners. Previously, spare engines were slung under the wing-root, causing considerable drag FLIGHT International, w/e 3 January 1976 November 25 following an engine failure caused by a birdstrike shortly after take-off from Heathrow. Gen Mitterrand and Aerospatiale The appointment of Gen Jacques Mitterrand as head of Aerospatiale is expected to result in increased military work for the company. Dassault has in recent years virtually monopolised French military design and development, although much manufacturing work has been sub contracted to* Aerospatiale. Already a sizeable share of the new Delta 2000 intercepter is reported to be ear marked for Aerospatiale. Gen Mitterrand, who is 57, served as a pilot during the Second World War with the RAF's No 200 Sqn. He continued his career in the Armee de l'Air and became assistant chief of staff in 1967. He commanded the strategic air force from 1970 to 1972, when he became inspector-general. He has logged 5,900hr as a pilot. Duxford runway threatened Duxford Aviation Society, which has been working with the Imperial War Museum to build up a large collection of historic aircraft at the former Battle of Britain airfield near Cam bridge, has launched a campaign to alter the planned route of a motorway across the airfield. The line of the Mil motorway, as approved by the British Department of the Environment, crosses the eastern end of the 6,000ft runway; the society feels that this must prejudice the future of the col lection, which includes many airworthy exhibits. Construction of the road is unlikely to begin for at least 18 months, during which time the society hopes to be able to pursuade the planning authority to re-route the road outside the eastern boundary of the airfield. The Duxford collection includes high-performance types, such as the Lightning, which have been able to fly into the museum; Concorde 01 is scheduled to fly in at the end of January 1976, but any shortening of the available runway would have a serious effect on the future delivery of exhibits and would restrict the scope of revenue-earning flying dis plays. Alamuddin to address Air League Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, chairman of Lebanese carrier Middle East Air lines, will be guest speaker at the Air League's Mansion House lunch in London on January 20. Tickets may be obtained from the Air League, Pemberton House, East Harding Street, EC4; telephone 01-353 5272. "Flight" dateline In line with an industrial practice, Flight now carries the date of the Saturday following publication. The magazine will continue to be pub lished on Thursday. All pages will be numbered consecutively with no dis tinction between editorial and adver tising pages.
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