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MLDiKnr INTERNATIONAL '/iiu"! International Business Press Associates Eg; Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations 4) IPC Business Press Ltd 1977 Week ending 26 March 1977 Number 3550 Volume 111 Founded in 1909 First aeronautical weekly in the world Official organ of the Royal Aero Club Published by IPC Transport Press Ltd, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LU Editor J. M. Ramsden Assistant Editor Hugh Field International Editor Mark Lambert Technical Editor Michael Wilson BSc, CEng, FBIS, MRAeS Atr Transport Editor John Belson Defence Editor Charles Gilson Chief Sub-editor Brendan Gallagher Editorial Staff Cliff Barnett Ian Goold Mike Hirst BTech Nigel Moll Stephen Piercey Doug Richardson Bill Sweetman John Wilkinson Air Photography Tom Hamill Chief US Correspondent Warren H. Goodman, Spring Valley Road, Ossining, New York 10562, USA Telephone (914) 941-0805 Concorde and New York French intolerance of New York's Concorde temporising is in contrast with the apparent tolerance of the British. Con corde owes much to French directness; but we wonder whether that total aviation per son Jacques Maillet, president of the French aircraft industry association Gifas, should be more careful in his choice of bons mots. He talks of "an American attitude which makes it sacrilege . . . that a significant technical development in the history of mankind should not be Ameri can." He says that "a negative decision would constitute dis crimination coupled with a desire to hurt," and emphasises how much New York means to Con corde and those who work on it. French workers also are pre paring to march, possibly against American airlines and the ser vices they require at European airports. And French Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud has forecast a "terrible reaction" in France should New York re ject Concorde. There is something in the argument that Americans will try almost everything in their politi cal, commercial and technical repertoire to be the world's fast est movers in everything. Julian Amery, the British Minister of Aviation who signed the Anglo- French Concorde Treaty in 1962, has claimed in a newspaper that Eugene Black, then presi dent of the World Bank and later a prominent member of the American SST advisory commit tee, "spent a whole evening trying to persuade me not to recommend the project to my colleagues." Later, he says, "a series of influential American visitors to London . . . went out of their way, in talks with British ministers, to urge the cancella tion of Concorde." All that is history now. We believe that the majority of Americans admire and support the European supersonic trans port. This is reflected in the editorials of our contemporary Aviation Week. M Maillet's words give little encouragement to American friends of Concorde, whose opponents are formidable. The well meant Gallic hyperbole is incompatible with Washing ton's fair trial of the aircraft, and with Texas's proclaimed desire for Concorde. The Americans have so far played fair, and New York— which just hates aircraft noise, period—must do the same if its motives are not to be misunder stood. President Carter has supported the previous Trans portation Secretary's recommen dation that New York should give Concorde a 16-month trial. This aeroplane has been "on approval" in Washington for nearly a year, and New York is right to insist that its noise should be limited; that airline operating techniques are ex plained, agreed and applied; and that the number of movements is rationed. Air France and British Airways would not be right—at least not yet—to test in the New York and perhaps higher US courts the constitutional point that a treaty is a treaty, and can not be torn up by a local author ity (even though it has been torn up by one of the parties, namely the United Kingdom). We believe that reason and fairness will pre vail, and that the benefits of New York to Concorde will be mutual. Group Advertisement Manager David Holmes Advertisement Representatives Jack Bush Clive Rigdsn Other advertisement representatives: see back of this Issue Publishing Director Dennis Holman Editorial Director IPC Transport Press Maurice A. Smith, DFC Telephone: 01-261 8070 (Editorial) 8397 (Photographic Library) 8081 (Advertisement Sales) 8392 (Advertisement Production) Telegrams/Telex; 25137 BISPRS G Subscriptions Manager: B. F. J. Nason Telephone 0444 59188. UK and overseas subscription rates at back of Issue. USA news-stand distribution by Eastern News Distributors, 14th Floor, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011. USA mailing agents: Expediters of the Printed Word Ltd, 527 Madison Avenue, Suite 1217, New York, NY 10022, 2nd-c!ass postage paid at New York and other US entry ports. US Direct Air Mail, $9000 p.a. Air-speeded to US $52-00 p. a. NEXT WEEK Flightcofour 119 :de Hoviliand DH.98 Mosquito B.iV Hum !l:iSV«Wr: ;!*>(<* feair v ^: 31 Our new weekly General Aviation section reviews feederliner aircraft and tests the Rockwell Commander 114. The Soviet missiles Scud A and B are analysed in Flight Intelligence, and we picture Britain's Royal Family in and around aeroplanes. IN THIS ISSUE World News Air Transport New York Concorde hearing off Three versions of X-Eleven offered Light Commercial New American SD3-30 order 750 753 757 Private Flight 758 AOPA discusses insurance and training Industry International Books Defence Commons criticises UK cuts Jet engine for Martel Letters In the air: HUGHES 500D POWER FOR AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS Avionics SPACE SHUTTLE FEELS THE ATMOSPHERE Straight and Level 760 761 762 767 770 779 783 784 788 Front cover: Nasa's Space Shuttle Orbiter, its engine bay faired over to reduce buffet at the carrier's tailplane, on one of its five captive unmanned flights over Edwards AFB
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