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FLIGHT International, 5 November 1977 1383 Straight and Level <Hmx£t Who's selling what • To save airports the bother of providing stairs, jetties and mobile lounges, the Homebuilt Triplanes Company Ltd of Potters Bar is offering airborne airstairs to passenger airlines. The company will fly the Stairo-plane around in formation with believed to be right, and—like Capt Jerry Shaw, who also died recently— he always made me realise that I am lucky to have known such people. • The Algerian Government welcomes hijackers, kidnappers and any criminal with a good record of holding inno cent air passengers hostage and threatening to blow them to smith ereens. A particularly warm and friendly >: '^ "\\i the airliner from departure to arrival. • Val Cleaver, who died the other day, was once kind enough to tell me that this was his favourite page in Flight. So I feel entitled to splutter a bit at our description of him as a Bristol Siddeley Engines man. He was a de Havilland man. He was also one of the world's greatest rocket-propulsion engineers and, in a quiet and underrated way, one of British aviation's most visionary men, a great fighter for what he Left This 20ft-span triplane, designed by George Frisbee of Mil waukee, USA, was intended for kit con struction by amateur constructors, follow ing flight tests in 1954 Right top Flight, October /; Right middle Transport Canada Maintenance Notice No 34/77; Below New Zea land Herald, October 8, /977 welcome is extended to hijackers with ransom money, preferably in millions of ready greenbacks extorted from fascist, capitalist, imperialist Govern ments who do not hold the sanctity of human life in such high regard as does the Algerian Government. Whatever measures may be taken by less civilised countries to deny the rights of hijackers, depend on Algeria to value human life. • Every news bulletin and every newspaper let us know that an Air France Concorde had to land at Shan- SITUATIONS VACANT DC3 CAPTAIN reciuired for charter company in West Indies. Send cv to Jet A?e Services, 9 Queens House, Leicester Place, London, WC2. L1395 *~ Airworthiness, Oepartrient of Transport. This Directive supersedes CF-77-09 (Not Issued Thii nirrrfiiif baumim&i&iiAMmAiti&mm^ai ; New Zealand aerobatic champion Pam Locke, of Christchurch, will give a display in an Air New Zealand DC-10 and an NAC Boem^73^wUMlvlowover non or somewhere with an engine shut down. Big drama. Right at the bottom of page 140 of an American aviation publication I came across the following six-liner, which I suppose you could say 20,000 people have been trying for 20 years to get into the papers: "Air France Concordes have com pleted 99-8 per cent of all scheduled flights in the first 18 months of ser vice, and arrived within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time on 94-4 per cent of their trips." No story. • From a Canadian Air Line Pilots Association journal article by Capt Andy Yates of Alpa, which seems to say it all about captaincy: "A single jeloud directly in the path can be circumnavigated with only a slight deviation—so slight, in fact, that a clearance need not be obtained. But the captain motions to his co pilot and tells him to go around. "You can almost see the slow burn take effect. The co-pilot feels he has been put down as not having any intelligence. "Safe operation? I don't think so. This type of treatment will cause the co-pilot to retreat into a shell, and not speak up when necessary to do so." Rogercard No 12 Handley Page Hey ford K3S00 at Radlett on March 9, i934 (Flight)
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