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1982
1982 - 0028.PDF
iwt&of VBKOKi (J) Straight and Level Q • More about the Arab girl Skyvan. Nephew Frank Robinson, who flew for the Sultanate of Oman, tells me that the pilot of the Skyvan in which the girl was born (No 906) was Mike "Shambles" Shanley of the RAAF. The flight was from Saiq to Firq on August 24, 1974. "A woman pas senger gave birth to twins. She named the girl Skyvan and, of course, the boy Shambles." The boy died but Skyvan is doing! fine and she and her mother have since met Mike Shanley. RAF Pageant rehearsals, HenOon, June 18, 1936 • On my morning run during the Christmas holiday (not a jog—a run) I heard great music coming from in side St Albans Abbey. Kicking the snow off my Superlite Intersports and removing my Chancellor Schmidt cap, I, crept inside. There are other things in life than aviation, I thought. The music of three young trumpeters and an unseen organist reverberated thrillingly around the 11th-century Norman tower and nave. They were rehearsing Christmas carol-music for timeless English words, simple words far re moved from discrete packages of interoperable frequency - hopping spread-spectrum avionics and all that. As I walked out I saw on a pew, poking out of a trumpet-case, a music sheet headed MARCONI AVIONICS ORCHESTRAL SCORES. • Overheard at the Royal Aero nautical Society: "The Navy tends to be in an at-sea situation." A few minutes previously the same speaker had been talking about "greater affordability in the implementation of this technology." = It's cheaper. • A Renault ad in Time is headed "WHEN THERE IS A CAR FROM A COUNTRY THAT DESIGNED CON CORDE . . ." Surely Alphonse Renault knows that the bloddy Breetish had full de sign authority for the cockpit coffee- cup holders and fag-stubbers? The great thing about European co operation (you remember European co-operation) is that the end product means as much or as little as you want it to mean. If one partner can't or won't pro mote it, the other will. So Allez France. Who cares about design machismo? Excuse me—h e 11 o ? Toulouse? You say that you were re sponsible for the coffee-cup holders and fag-stubbers? • To cancel Concorde, says this UK Government report, will cost £34 mil lion. To help British Airways support its fleet of seven for the next six years, the UK taxpayer need spend a mere piffling £6 million. BA Concordes' 12-weekly London- New York roundtrips are carrying 1,600 passengers, up 10 per cent on the previous year, at a time when total North Atlantic subsonic traffic has hardly grown. And, touch wood, I te^^mfflSBP Airline World, October 8, 1981 for six years now we've doubled transport speed without scratching a soul—a feat unmatched since man first mounted a horse and fell off. It is an achievement to be proud of. The French feel the same, and they count another plus: you win your bread by technology, and Concorde is European technology's proudest flag ship. Read Renault's car ads. I only hope their spare wheels don't cost £345,000,000 each. • Europilote is so anti two-pilot crews that if there is a crash "we won't hesitate to show up in court to sup port product-liability claims", says a member of the French pilots' associa tion SNPL. Mr Justice Lunchtime: Are you aware, monsieur, that pilots in the world's biggest and safest airline country, the United States, have accepted the two-pilot crew? And that the new airliner genera tion will be easier to fly than 3,000 two-pilot jets safely operated for 20 years? —Merde. What these Boeings need world B- / 7 SallyB... (Steap Air Show, Shropshire, 1979, Euro- . . . are Car Proximity Warning Indicators overrun, September 5, Manila) (Korean Air Lines 747 ' " KS' -0
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