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1980
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26 FLIGHT International, S January 1980 (J) Straight and Level Q) • Compliments to BBC TV for its six- part programme "Diamonds in the Sky." I thought it was beautifully done—the most responsible and stylish TV programme I have seen on the effects of air transport on society. The best two bits for me were the dredger and the breakaway tie. The dredger is still standing in a Papua New Guinea field 57 years after Junkers G.31s lifted it in, girder by girder. It was the lure of gold that did it, and it reminded me of the space stations which the Shuttle will build girder by girder, lured by some thing rarer than gold in the decades to come—energy. The breakaway tie was demon strated by a United Airlines baggage- complaints clerk, and for me it summed up perfectly the effect that society is having on aviation. • What's this FFCC Forward Facing Crew Cockpit of the future, then? Will it mean an end to the Backward Facing Crew Cockpit? • The cost of fixing 3,540 F100 engines for USAF F-15s and F-16s will be $1,100 million, says Gen Alton Slay, Chief of USAF Systems Command. We don't mind engine trouble—we just want you to fix it, that's all. Even if it does cost as much as the Brits and Monsures each spent on Concorde. • TWA has chosen the Boeing 767 instead of the A3I0 because, among other reasons, of "likely attractive derivatives." If by derivative we mean something bigger and pushier, the A310's deriva tive is already flying. It's called the A300. There is nothing that Airbus n't do, no airline heart it couldn't win, if it didn't have a name some thing a bit more like—er, plucking one out of the hat—Boeing. • Pilots and crewmen of the Royal Marine Air Squadron's Salerno flight now safely back at Plymouth from Northern Ireland recall strange occur rences. At night, whenever the ionosphere was just right, HF communications between the flight-operations room and its helicopters became confused by a babble of messages from a Man hattan courier company making deliveries around Haarlem and Green- /# w y HH Southern Cross to flu again Indonesia Observer, December 8 • ch, and the internal paging system >':•' a New York hospital. *• Did you know that British Airways sends cargo across the Channel by sea? The airline operates more con tainer lorries than it does container jets. So do a lot of other airlines: Gerry Draper of British Airways says he saw a KLM cargo man look at his watch the other day and say: "Our daily con tainer truck to Paris is crossing the daily Air France container truck to Amsterdam just about now." • From a US contract specification: "The budget request for each year of the proposed period must include the year's contract price plus the poten tial payment that would be due the contractor if the option to renew is not exercised. Both the funds for the contract price and for the potential %. We really must get some Jeppesen charts . . . ! (from an Aeroflot magazine) : payment if the option to renew is not j exercised will be obligated for the ! fiscal year covered by the contract. ; However, funds to cover the potential I payment if the option to renew is not ! exercised obviously would not be I expended if the .. . drone drone." AH this duplication . . . (Aeritalia C222 Firefighter on test at Naples) . . . will never get us off the ground (Rocket-assisted DC-3, La Cumplida, Nicaragua, December 1946)
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