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36 FLIGHT International, I January 1977 (£) Straight and Level Q 1977 by Cyril Crystalballs I predict that 1977 will be another vintage year for the neddies. In fact it is hard to re member when they had a bad one. Of course there will be minor difficulties but that is Necessary Training for Life. Consider the facts. We have seen Concorde into service and now we can fly faster than half the military pilots in the world and drink champagne at the same time. Try doing that in a Phantom. - On the manufacturing front we have had high drama in Parliament and while the mini ster has been up half the night rolling out dogma the boys in the works have been rolling out and flying the odd aeroplane, secure in the knowledge that nothing will halt the onward rush of pension-proof inflation. But think of all the spares and modifi cations to come. As a long-term business, aero space has always outlived the whims and fancies of short-term politicians. Gestation of a new design from a few lines on paper to the finished product at cruise altitude with its payload of gran nies or nukes may take ten or -UUeJU, (U%£*- te*e** twenty years. Most politicians are pushed to keep even a policy going for ten or twenty minutes. Take heart, aviators. The year 1977 will offer great challenges. And never forget that being in aviation is even better than working. jjjjljjl ™'*». -^ Just how low . . . . . . can you get? • (left, beware low- flying aircraft sign, location unknown, sent by Warwick shire nephew; right, crop-spraying de Havilland Chipmunk, July 1958, location and occasion un known) • I see that the year-old Organising Committee for British Aerospace has cost the taxpayer nearly £200,000 to date. Amazed, my fearless team of fearless investigative reporters have audited the accounts as follows:— £ Bicycle for chairman (used) 17-50 Bus fares for chairman 9,372 10 Cheese sandwiches for chairman 1,103-75 Vim ordinaire for Boeing 71-10 Newcastle Brown for Dassault 1,600-20 Entertainment of union leaders 116,700 05 Clerk/typist 8,251-70 Rude telegrams to House of Lords 62,357-40 Golf clubs for neddiies 25 00 Golf balls for ditto 500 • 00 Wizard new British planes 1-20 Total 200,000 00 Roger-card number 10—Must keep in touch! . . . (Buccaneers of 208 Sqn, RAF Honington) • Hot news just coming in from Westminster: — Aircraft and Shipbuilding Bill "Lords reason for insisting on their amendments in lieu of certain of their amendments to which the Commons have disagreed and for their disagree ment to the Commons amendments in lieu of certain of their amendments on which they have insisted." mtfi this non-aggressive para* 3-ise. he si?ts off in' a pbwerful slider designed by his dead father to find the old, deserted ritv ha knows wrists. The Daily Telegraph, December 2
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