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84 FLIGHT International, w/e 10 January 1976 Straight and Level TWAS rather a bad year for golf. Lord George-Brown told the British Aircraft Golfing Society a few home truths, including: "I happen to be on your side." Then Mr Bobert Timm resigned as a member of the US Civil Aeronautics Board, partly for accepting an airline golfing trip to Bermuda (well we all do it—thinks, wish I could play golf). Then a nephew who has just changed his job was asked by the chairman of his new • From the US Army's Logistics Management Manual, from my under cover man in San Francisco: "The Army Logistic System con tains a life cycle which begins with a concept. This concept is developed, tested, and evaluated to maturity, implemented, maintained, refined, improved, and eventually discarded." • Two of my oldest pals have independently published quite different f Spectators f Flight departurtures -j-. The British Airports Authority at Gatwick Airport evidently needs a new signwriterter company: "Do you play golf?"—"No, I'm afraid I don't sir.'' "Thank heavens for that," replied the chairman. • From The Guardian for November 18: "It got off the runway because of ground effect, but it was not designed to fly under these conditions, and it didn't," says the agency. Excuse me, but has your Scottie flown before?... Cessna Aircraft Com pany, the world's largest producers of eight-wing air craft, have entered into an -* T;fh Fliriiiiii "Karachi Sun," November 29 books. One is called Project Cancelled and the other The World's Worst Air craft. Back to your typewriters, chaps, plug into the positive terminal and lavish your scholarship and love of the air into follow-up books titled Project Successful and The World's Best Aircraft. You will double, nay quadruple, your sales. Who cares whether Monty Orangeballs, Dominic Horrid or Julia Mediaplug review them? • A letter from a British Airways employee in the airline's newspaper complains about the difficulty of get ting tickets. Deploring the "stifling bureaucracy," it says: "First-class travel? Not on your life. Try another operator. There are so many more examples, incidents and situations, one need not labour on it." You have to read the letter again and again to believe it—the employee is complaining about the free staff travel. [ Between April last year and'] March this year BA carried 1.31 million overseas passengers ofI whom 173,000 (13.5 per cent) did not turn up. Of these onlvl "The Guardian," December II • On the same page of the same issue of The Times the other day I read two stories. The first was about a youth caught shoplifting by a super market doorman, whom he shoved to his death under a passing lorry. Two years probation for that. The second story was about a Cherokee pilot who flew very sillily after a broken love affair. He didn't harm anybody (luckily). Three years in prison for that. • Just as the USAF collects its AWACS simulator from Redifon in Britain, British Airways sends to the Noo World for a new Boeing 747 simulator. If Redifon can simulate an aero plane so complex it costs $100 million per copy, without wings, fuselage, engines, tail or wheels, why can't it simulate an airline costing $20 mil lion? But it can. Wrong question Brian. . . . or is it just to keep your Bulldog warm? (Swedish Scottish Aviation Bulldog)
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