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1978
1978 - 0085.PDF
Dear Uncle Roger. . . . . . "No story," says you! If "Air France Concordes have completed 99-8 per cent of all scheduled flights in the first 18 months of service" (S&L, November 5), then either: • Only 0-2 per cent of scheduled flights remain before the demise of Air France's Concordes, or • 0-2 per cent never completed their flights and are still presumably air borne, or • 0-2 per cent took longer than 18 months to complete their flights. Why the doubts about Concorde's endurance? NATS, MIKE PERRY Glasgow Airport, Paisley, Renfrewshire . . . The fuselage and V12 engine shown below were spotted in El Bluff, near Bluefields on the east coast of Nicaragua. Can you, or one of your nephews, say what it is and what it's doing there? 20 Vandyke Close, PETER DIXON London SW15 3J9 . . . With reference to your whimsy about Jim Cordes and his regalia (DUR, October 8), from 1925 RAF issue flying garments were all based on the surplus 1914-18 open-cockpit/ anti-frostbite leather jackets and Sid- cot suits that had to be used up dur ing the usual defence cuts. For sum mer flying you could also draw some very drab prison-grey overalls, which were on issue to everyone from the lowliest AC2 up to any Air Marshal silly enough to want to fly. As a result, glamour-chasing pilots —and most of them were—had to pay their own money to Gieves or Brian Lewis for those splendid deb-killer white overalls. I think Jim Cordes and I must have invested at the same time, about 1934, fondly thinking that we need no longer worry about the oil from the interrupter gear of the old fighters, only to find that with the first retracting undercarriage we were sartorially doomed by a thing called hydraulic fluid. But as Jim would have said: "There was no harm in trying." GP CAPT H. J. WILSON SO Maddox Street, New Bond Street, London W1R 9PA WHAT'S ON Jan 19 RAeS Test Pilot's Group: "Techniques for brief assessment," by Hugh Field (flight); 4 Hamilton Place, London W1V OBQ; telephone 01-499 3515-9. Jan 23-28 Helicopter Association of America: Helicopter Operators Management Course VIII; Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, Calif i telephone H AA, (202) 466-2420. Jan 24-26 Second International Symposium on the Effects of the Ionosphere on Space and Terrestrial Systems; Stouffers National Centre Inn, Arlington, Va, USA. Jan 25 RAeS Management Studies Group: "A contribution to European engineering standard isation for the aerospace industry," by S. A. White (HSA); 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Jan 26 Airport Associations Co-ordinating Council: 26th Meeting; Host Airport Hotel, Tampa, Fla, USA; telephone Sandra Preston (AACC Permanent Secretariat), Geneva (022) 98 4141. Jan 28 Helicopter Association of America: Safety Officers' School; Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, Calif, USA. Jan 29-Feb 1 Helicopter Association of America: 30th Annual Meeting, Convention and Industry Showcase; Town and Country Hotel Convention Centre, San Diego, Calif. Jan 31 RAeS Graduates' and Students' Sec tion: "Soaring prophecy," by Frank Irving (Imperial College); 6.30 p.m., City University, London. Feb 1 RAeS Agricultural Aviation Group: all- day symposium, "Practical crop protection from the air"; 9.30 a.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 1-3 AIAA: Sixth Biennial Strategic Sys tems Conference; Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif, USA; telephone AIAA, (212) 581-4300. Feb 7-9 IEEE/Optical Society of America: Second Biennial Conference on Laser and Electro-optical Systems; Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, Calif, USA. Feb 8 RAeS Rotorcraft Section: all-day sym posium, "Maintenance aspects of helicopter operations"; 10 a.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 14 RAeS Graduates' and Students' Sec tion: St Valentine's Day Ladies' Evening, "Forty years in aviation," by Sir Peter Masefleld; 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 15 RAeS: film show in aid of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal Fund; 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 16 RAeS Light Aeroplane Group: all-day presentation by the Popular Flying Association. Details from Lectures Secretary,4 Hamilton Place. Feb 21 RAeS Historical Group: "Military assault gliders 1939-45," by Dr K. G. Wilkinson (British Airways); 7 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 21, 22 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univer sity: "FBO—on top," special seminar for fixed- base operation owners, managers and staff; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Regional Airport, Daytona Beach, Fla 32014, USA; tele phone Bob Whempner, (800) 874-7014 extension 372. Feb 22 RAeS Air Transport Group: all-day symposium, "Future airport policy." Details from Lectures Secretary, 4 Hamilton Place. Feb 22, 23 20th Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics. Contact the Secre tary, Organising Committee, 20th Israel Annual Conference on Aviation and Astronautics, c/o Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Tech- nion-lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; telephone Haifa 221505/230260. Mar 1 RAeS: Society Lecture at Christchurch Branch, "Flight refuelling and the world of the 1980s," by J. E. McCormick (Boeing); 7 p.m., Majestic Hotel, Derby Road, Bournemouth. Mar 1 RAeS Graduates' and Students' Sec tion: half-day symposium, "Do I want to be an engineer?"; 2 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Mar 2 RAeS: Society Lecture at Southend, by Freddie Laker. Mar 6-10 ESA/CNES: International Conference on Earth Observations from Space and Manage ment of Planetary Resources; Toulouse, France. Mar 7 RAeS Graduates' and Students' Section: "The history and development of Heathrow Airport"; 6.30 p.m., Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Mar 7-9 Nasa/USAF: International Spacecraft Contamination Conference; USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, Col, USA. 115 Mar 7-10 RAeS/IEE: International Conference on Maritime and Aeronautical Satellite Com munication and Navigation; IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL; telephone Annemarie Cunningham-Swendell, 01-240 1871, extension 272 or 280. Mar 10-19 25th International Exhibition of Electronics, Nuclear Energy and Aerospace Technology; Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome; telephone Dr Giovanni Benvenuti, 06/6569343/4/5. Mar 15-17 11th Annual Simulation Symposium; Tampa, Fla, USA. Contact Annual Simulation Symposium, PO Box 22621, Tampa, Fla. Mar20-22 National Physical Laboratory: tutorial conference, "Software for numerical optimisa tion"; Hotel Russell, London. Details from Dr P. E. Gill or Dr W. Murray, Division of Numerical Analysis and Computing, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middx TW11 0LW. Mar 21 RAeS: Society Lecture, "Nimrod Force operations," by Gp Capt L. Hanson and Wg Cdr J. King; 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Mar 28-Apr 15 RAeS: 30th Air Transport Course; St Edmund Hall, Oxford., Mar 29 RAeS Astronautics and Guided Flight Section: discussion, "Direct broadcasting from satellites"; 6 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Mar 29 RAeS: J. D. North Memorial Lecture, "The potential of advanced technology for aircraft structures," by Dr W. G. Molyneux (RAE Farnborough); 7 p.m., Dowty Boulton Paul, Wolverhampton. Apr 4-7 RAeS: Conference on Electromag netic Compatibility; Surrey University. Apr 5 RAeS/IEE: all-day symposium, "Airborne integrated data systems"; 4 Hamilton Place. Apr 9-12 Flight Safety Foundation: 23rd Annual Corporate Aircraft Safety Seminar, "Safety in the terminal environment"; Sheraton National Motoi Hotel, Arlington, Va, USA; telephone Dagmar Witherspoon, (703) 528-4100. Apr 9-13 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Gas Turbine Division: International Gas Turbine Conference; Wembley Conference Centre, London; telephone (212) 697-5520. April 10*21 Institute of Aviation Safety: 20th International Course and Seminars in Aviation Accident Prevention Investigative Techniques (Pre-mishap), and 22nd Course and Seminars (Post-mishap); Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm 70, Sweden; telephone Professor Fritz Hjelte, 08 7877000. Apr 11 RAeS Air Transport Group: discussion, "Techniques of salesmanship," led by B. A. H. Botting (HSA), P. W. Brooks (BAC) and R. S. Sowter (Air Lease International); 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Apr 19 RAeS Flight Simulation Group: all-day symposium, "Extending the scope of flight simulation"; 4 Hamilton Place. Apr 20 RAeS: H. P. Folland Memorial Lecture at Gloucester and Cheltenham Branch, "Pros pects and problems in space," by G. K. C. Pardoe (General Technology Systems). Apr 24-28 US Air Force Materials Laboratory/ Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory: Con ference on Aerospace Transparent Materials and Enclosures; Long Beach Hyatt House, Long Beach, California, USA; telephone Joseph Militello, (513) 229-2919. Apr 26 RAeS Graduates' and Students' Section Rotorcraft Section: " A year in the life: a personal view of Empire Test Pilots School life and teach ings," by D. W. Blackall; 6.30 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. Apr 27 RAeS: Third Journee des Pionniers Europeens; 4 Hamilton Place. May 2 RAeS Light Aeroplane Group: "Pro moting light aviation"; 6 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place. May 3 RAeS/IEE, "Rain erosion and the certi fication of Concorde," by A. A. Fyall (RAE Aberporth); 7.30 p.m., Assembly Hall, RAE Farnborough, Hants. May 5-7 24th International Jersey International Air Rally; Jersey Airport, Channel Islands; telephone Sherlie Hart, 0534 42706. May 6 RAeS: 62nd Branches Conference; Preston. May 17,18 RAeS Management Studies Group: two-day convention, "Steps to ensure the future prosperity of high-technology industry in the United Kingdom"; 4 Hamilton Place. Details from the Lectures Secretary. May 18 RAeS: Annual General Meeting; 6 p.m., 4 Hamilton Place.
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