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1981
1981 - 0035.PDF
FLIGHT Internationa/, J January 1981 33 (£) Straight and Level @ SECRET NEW US JET UNVEILED By J. Burlington Widebody, World's Most Confused Air Correspondent • A new nuclear threat to the peaceful East Anglia countryside landed last night at Mildenheath, England, home of the United States Air Force Europe's biggest • Those precise delivery dates to which Airbus is publicly committing itself—they remind me of my recent call to Scruggs Aerospace. When I asked the approximate delivery date of a certain aeroplane—you know, something a little more precise than Rollo's "towards the latter half of the decade," I received the reply: "With inflation running as high as it is, dear boy, any date I quote might be invalid by the time you get into print." You can't be cross with them, can you? PX and Launderama. The new plane, the F-30 Eagleelgae, is de scribed by 281st USAF High Lethality Combat Pursuit Wing Gen Orville J. Bullshine III as "guaranteed to equalitise the East-West balance of power, so they don't know whether we're coming or going either." • I wonder whether the aircraft in dustry will do something better than the Boeing 757, which suddenly seems to have become the 727 replacement. Douglas is right to say that such an aircraft must be twin-aisle (TA) to capture the mood of the market, a mood which comes on when it can't get past the food carts. The new luggage lockers of the Air bus A310 mock-up prompt me to think that what the market needs is not TA but TPCB airliners—ones which you can board carrying Two Pieces of D.H.50 crash in the fog at Stag Lane, 1925. The aircraft belonged to the de Havilland Hire Service, just think, all you taxi operators—one day you could be another British Aerospace . . . K- i f 1 W^iA mm • """'.-..r f^i&f&v Ewttfe' ft ^^9&., K: '^^ MKL Hn*****>t? p\* uniir —%;.-\ IK ML rip WSL, taut-1 ••'•-•' i I ine squaoroiibadge which I bears the motto in French, | Prcux et Audacicux (Gallant and Darling) was approved | ^-^Lf^gr^?? cnitadron yhaW KArmaa' The Times, February 15, 1980 Cabin Baggage. For the majority of trips, TPCB airliners will liberate you from that maddening wait in Baggage Claim. I shall instruct my own airline, Potters Bar Airways, to order a fleet of TPCB airliners at once—or at least, as Aviation Week puts it, to "place on preliminary commitment status inten tions for the purchase" of such air liners. • From a Boeing press release: "AH Nippon will achieve a world first towards the end of this year when it plans to install TV cameras on the nose landing-gear of its 747s to provide pas sengers with scenes of take-offs and landings—an inflight entertainment system called Sky-Vision." NEW PRODUCTS: Thinx Electronics announces a novel electricity-saving Ground Proximity Warning System in which the passengers emit live shouts of "pull up, pull up!" • The United States Navy concludes that a lot of small Vtol carriers could be more useful than not a lot of big Htol carriers (Hairy Take-Off and Landing) and is said to be "validating the need to deploy organic air power more flexibly." The best example I ever saw of organic air power was at Radlett in the late Sixties. Dozens of Victors which had been delivered to Handley Page when that company was giving cause for grave anxiety stood forlornly around the airfield. They were there for what seemed like years. Eventually mushrooms grew out of the wings. Finally, Hawker Siddeley Manchester picked and sold this organic air power to the Ministry of Defence canteen for £**** million.
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