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456 Otrag seeks foreign launch site LUTZ Kaiser, chairman of West Germany's Otrag rocket launcher development company, is looking for test sites in Brazil and South-east Asia. Otrag has already launched rockets from Zaire's Shaba province, and Kaiser is now seeking inter national acceptance of his revolution ary scheme. His production-line rocket is based on simple, off-the-shelf components that can be assembled into stages and clustered to provide the performance necessary for speci fic missions. Kaiser is already putting the finishing touches to plans for a satellite launch attempt, and believes that his cheap rockets will prove attractive to Third World countries. Otrag recently set up a branch office in Paris, coming in for harsh criticism from the Soviet Union for what it claims is an attempt at clandestine development of a ballistic missile for West Germany. Kaiser says that he is determined to retain owner ship of any rocket that may be used by a foreign customer, claiming that Otrag will not permit its rockets to be used for any military activity. Boeing contracts in Britain top $100million BOEING has placed contracts with British industry worth more than $100 million since 1973, the US com pany tells Flight. This sum excludes the value of Rolls-Royce engines and nacelles. Boeing is ahead of the target figure for British offset work called for in the British Airways 747 con tract, but the manufacturer empha sises that all the orders have been placed only after intense international competition. FLIGHT Internationa/, 12 Augutt I97S Fuselage stretch for RAF Hercules THIRTY RAF Lockheed C-130K Her cules are to be given a 15ft fuselage stretch similar to that Used to create the civil L-100-30 (Lockheed Model 382G). The first aircraft will be modi fied, starting this autumn, by Lock heed Georgia, with;the* other 29 being rebuilt by the aircraft division of Marshall of Cambridge, which is responsible for modification of the RAF C-130 fleet Stretching the aircraft will give the RAF an increase in capacity equiva lent to a further six standard Her cules. The programme is expected to last for four years and the modified aircraft will be able to carry seven cargo pallets, two more than at present. A total of 128 soldiers will be carried on trooping flights, an in crease of 36, while the paratroop capacity rises from 64 to 92. On medical evacuation missions an extra six stretcher cases will be accommo dated, bringing the maximum load to 99 plus six attendants. The stretching of C-130s is not new, civil L-100 transports having been rebuilt to the longer L-100>-30 standard. Profit shares for B.CAL workers EMPLOYEES of British Caledonian Airways and its sister companies are to receive shares in the group's parent company, Caledonian Airways, under the terms of a proposed profit-sharing scheme. Five per cent of'annual pre tax profits will be set aside for the purchase of shares, which will be allocated to employees in proportion to their salaries. The shares will be held for a qualifying period (still to be agreed with the Inland Revenue) by trustees, while dividends will be paid to employees. At the end of the qualifying period ownership of shares will pass to individual members of staff, who will be free to sell them. Participation. will be restricted to full-time employees with at least two years' service. They must be over 21 years old and subject to UK taxes. About 4,900 staff are currently eligible for the scheme. The first deduction from profits will be made for the year ending October 31, 1978. In the 13 months to October 1977 Caledonian Airways made a pre-tax profit of £7-9 million on a turnover of £158-8 mil lion. This would have produced a deduction of nearly £400,000 if the scheme had been in effect. The com pany is not giving a profit forecast for the current financial year. Caledonian Airways chairman Adam Thomson says that the scheme "is a recognition of the hard work and con siderable effort of our employees in the past and it offers a tangible in centive to them to continue to develop our business." Companies in the group include British Caledonian Airways, British Caledonian Travel Holdings (incorporating Blue Sky Holidays and Golden Lion Holidays), Caledonian Hotel Management and British Cale donian Aircraft Trading. Latest immaculate restoration to emerge from Personal Plane Services of Wycombe Air Park is West/and Lysander IIIA G-BCVVL The aircraft Was posed for the Flight camera by Civil Aviation Authority test pilot Darrol Stinton during one of its early airworthiness test flights
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