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FLIGHT International. 30 June 1979 2363 Straight and Lev • I see that Hunting Engineering is offering a new airfield-busting weapon, the JP233. Well, OK, can you come back tomor row? Can I send you a letter of intent? A memorandum of understand ing, even? The thing is, I rather like airfields. In any case, I don't see how anybody could make such a weapon, not un less it were a nootron bomb or some thing. I mean, to bust an airfield you have got to do more than just crater the runway. You have got to bust the Main Gate Police box bicycle shed. the WRAF Social Club ping-pong hut, the Sergeant's Mess Billiard table, and the Ministry of Defence Bomb Procurement Executive Swimming Pool and Golf-Course Complex. Must dash, there's a thing with a cruciform fin coming at this moment in time towards the Straight and Level editorial complex. • British Airways senior engineer, asked by Flight "Does Concorde come into your office very much?" replied: "Not as much as our shop stewards do." • Postscript to that BBC TV pro gramme Bombers. They were all so young, said my wife, who was watch ing the programme with me and my 22-year-old son, who was recovering well from a hard day's golf. How frightening those German fighters must have looked to a first- mission rear-gunner. Except that the Fwl90 pilot was probably an equally scared 20-year-old on his first mission, • X :3L ji said my son as he wandered languidly off to ring his current girl. We like her, but I bet she doesn't plot as well as those WAAFs did. • "A spokesman for the airport said the delay was due to administrative complications in programming the work." —From a local newspaper which shall be nameless. The sender of the cutting is the airport spokesman himself. He writes: " = We screwed it up, Brian." His only problem is going to be ROGERWORD No 9 'TCI*! , lift; . . . the landing—er, I mean alighting . . . (Top firefighting Catalinas at Victoria, BC. Above Jonathan Cole's attempt to win the £1,000 National birdman Rally prize, Bognor Regis, August 1978) • FAA spokesman, quoted by Rotor & Wing, May 1979: "Quit complain ing. You people are lucky you're not getting all the FAA you're paying for." Across 1 Chooses not to proceed... (6) 5 ...and pays * the penalty for trying to turn back (7) 9 Flown only by Pan Am (3, 7) 10 Weather instru ment in turbine (4) 11 Vickers troop car rier (8) 12 Route or airline (6) 13 Followed the Midge (4) 15 Talon maker (8) 18 Brief flight in a Skyvan? (5, 3) 19 Part of orange manoeuvre (4) 21 Sea Hawk Navy (6) 23 Led by 5 down (8) 25 Ace Hendon-help- er(4) 26 F-111 started the craze for them (5-5) 27 Sounds as if it is search) ng — and probably is (3, 4) 28 Gets out in a hurry (6) Down 2 Bared Italian bom ber (5) 3 Short establish ment (9) 4 Worn by craft that 7(6) 5 This is your... (7, 8) 6 Biggin's had lots of (7.8) 7 Fly without moving (5) 8 This flying boat was based there (9) 14 Trouble-free bom bing? (2, 4-3) 20 Probe it drink (6) for 16 Exaggerated plane? (9) 17 A hissing copter (8) bi- heli- 22 Risk a Polish train er (5) 24 Islander's Isle (5) Answers next week The Daily Telegraph, June 2 ll V U3 Wi 125 12 T^l m \ 13 I ^r^^^^ 1_ • 26 • 5 B'5 1^^ ^•2T~^| to 7 12. 1 ^\ i F* **""1^1 Is H ^r^^l
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