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Aviation History
1977
1977 - 0087.PDF
FLIGHT International, 8 January 1977 8! Q) Straight and Level Q • A civil Aztec was investigated at night over the North Sea by an RAF Lightning. Shunt, scrape, buckle, sorreeee . . . Luckily everyone got home in one piece, and World War Three wasn't triggered off. The accident report will not be published, says Mr Edmund Dell, with a Ministry of Defence ventrilo quist standing close behind him, be cause of "Security". If Mr Dell had just published a synopsis saying that the Aztec flight looked a bit funny, which it did, and that the Lightning pilot was a little over-zealous in very difficult condi- lic, asinine, drivelling Secrecy. We will get yet another TV programme about how everything the British do is bloody awful, when in fact it is mostly bloody good, the only superbly good thing of course being our team ot fearless, crusading, investigative re porters who have made this TV film, which is selling for £5,000 a reel to 34 West German, Italian, French and American TV networks—and down goes the pound again. And it will all be the fault of the filthy journalists again—right, Sir Secret Harry? Yes indeed, though not for quotation please, dear boy. *H*c&t, &*fe+- & r. ill iiitiilf 898 :::S ]: i««<#|5% i$ ¥ ^MW:M^^i'^^' Good heavens, isn't that a . . . lii iiii 5iiiiiiiiii:S!iii!:ii|i •••w-v* ..... . ' ., ' .... ' I 11 '; " '•••' : mmMsmm i. *.*. r tions, the matter would have been closed. Instead, another weak Minister de fers to another Permanent Secret Harry—and thus provokes the fear less, crusading, investigative journa lists of The Daily Clanger to make a mockery of the RAF. Filthy press swine again, right? • Ditto ditto, Granada TV rings Flight for help with a feature on Tornado. Do we know the address of the Secrets Case man who lost his job for criticising the aircraft? Sorry mate. But you bet they'll find it, in a frenzy of simulated Lust for the Truth —again provoked by fatuous, imbeci- ~Mr Matthews, who joined™ Aer Lingus in 1961 as an export clerk, was seconded to East African Airways (Aer Ltngus have been cargo sales agents for them in Britain since 1875) and re-organised Ithe jrter sybsidi Above, Freight News Weekly, December 3, '9'6; right, Sopwith Dolphins in production, Kingston, December 1918 • Capt Alan Gibson, retired Boeing 747 pilot, was at the recent Flight hazard-alerting seminar. He quoted the opinion of an Employment Ap peal Tribunal judge as follows: "There are activities in which the degree of professional skill re quired is so high, and the potential consequences of the smallest de parture from that high standard so serious, that one failure to perform in accordance with that standard is enough to justify dismissal." The judge cited as examples, ac cording to Capt Gibson, "passenger- carrying airline pilots, scientists operating a nuclear reactor, chemists in charge of research into the possible effects of drugs, and drivers of express trains or lorries carrying sulphuric- acid." Should he, Capt Gibson asked, have included judges? . . . Lancaster? . . . (Above left, smokescreen being laid at the US Chemical Warfare School, Maryland, 1937; above, RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster and the Red Arrows, 1975) YUCKSPEAK LIBRARY Series of 1,000,000 • "The results presents a picture of a program pressured by EPA manage ment-imposed time constraints to meet legislated mandates for promul gating new standards, hampered by inadequate mechanisms to detect and correct mechanical problems and han dicapped by budgetary and manage ment restrictions placed on the pro gram after it was well under way"— from a US Congressional Committee report on an Environmental Protec tion Agency report. = This report is useless.
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