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1986
1986 - 0288.PDF
STRAIGHT AND LEVEL • DON'T worry if you aren't your employer's favourite person, says Capt Winston Mackley of Air New Zealand, retired. Even in the best- managed airlines you get people who, "driven by ambi tion, quickly assimilate what is needed to 'please the boss' and become, as we know them, 'good company men'". Gerhard Neumann, legend ary former boss of GE aero engines, once said that the best managements are the ones which encourage and foster dissent. The debate produces better policies and decisions. The world needs more bad company men. • Concorde's lack of a chief designer shows in its complex engineering, says a BA engineer. "The intakes have got 1,000 potentiometers— adjust one and you alter the lot. Today's avionics could put the entire eight-computer intake control system in one small black box. The under carriage retraction is sequenced by 29 micro- switches, and every panel you open is full of stuff. The lady is indeed mad dening, but her engineers and pilots (and now bankers) are devoted to her, ministering to her temperaments beyond the call of duty. Left: Gasp! What an amazing sight— a jet in this small mountain-ringed ski resort?.. . (Dan-Air 146 with extremely brave silly skier, Innsbruck) She is actually now quite old, or should I say mature, with ten years' service behind her. And although she may be a fast bitch she is ravishingly beautiful and makes a lot of money. The Joan Collins of the airways. • "While the Westland drama has been dominating the attention of Ministers ... a more important question involving some of the same participants has been the object of intense study in the corridors of Whitehall," says an FT leader, referring to the Right top: Daily Mail, January 7; right: Lloyd's List, December 2 GEC bid for Plessey. The bid, if it goes through, "will involve an increase in concen tration among British suppli ers of telecommunications equipment and other elec tronic systems". Which will make life administratively easier for Whitehall. Competitive buying is hard work. So is the fostering and consideration of alternative national industrial intellect and dissent. No doubt the merger of Bristol and Fairey helicopters with Westland was once "the object of intense study in the The Vickers airship R33 broke away from her mooring at Pulham on April 16, 1925, in a full gale. Her master, Fit Lt R. S. Booth, and some of the crew were on board. They got her back successfully the next day after an unscheduled trip over the North Sea V;' Planes include Soviet Blinder bombers, 1 MIGs, and Sukhoi Flitter fighters, as well | :ing 747 200B F-GCBC, Flight 091 to Santiago (Chile) via Rio dc 1 Janeiro, landed at Rio de Janeiro air- j port 0635, Dec 2, and immediately I afterwards the No 1 engine did not go I into reverse and the 'plane went to the I fight of runway, left the runway, passed lover a lawn pitch and hit a small*dilch, lwhich damaged the undercarriage. I With the impact, one of the landing Igears parted violently and the other •went into the front of the 'plane. The Inosc hil theconcrctc and shattered. The J'plane then travelled some distance and (stopped after hitting a concrete post. Of Ithe 300 passengers and 17 crew only •about 20 had minor bruises/nervous . According to airport officials the ; was corridors of Whitehall". As was the merger of Bristol Siddeley with Rolls-Royce. A GEC takeover of Plessey will mean that the neddies can catch the earlier train home. It will also be the first step , towards a United Tech- !fv nologies takeover of GEC, the resignation of itinerant minis ters, the public exchange of ludicrously irrelevant letters, and a deservedly late train home for the neddies. • Sir John Cuckney, asked if he was surprised by the resig nation of Mr Heseltine: "A little surprised. When he was last down here he told us that we had to find our own solu tion. So we did". • Where are all the Concorde knockers and whingers today? Flying in Concorde, no doubt—whingeing about the cabin service or something. % From an International Federation of Airworthiness (IFA) conference: "Fokker's F.27 can now be life-extended to 90,000hr. In short-haul this involves nearly 200,000 miles of ground roll". YUCKSPEAK LIBRARY Series of 1,000,000,000 • "The Boeing Avenger combines General Dynamics Stinger missiles on an Army high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV)." = Jeep. f^^r QjL&n~ 46 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 1 February 1986
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