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Oiiwii^r/ii /\i\ui^nvnj^ \ John Pendry won the individ ual event and led Great > Britain to victory in the European hand-gliding, com- . petition in Bassano, Italy over Left Washington Post, March 18; right The Times, March 29 Eroppassenger Stewardess! Why have both engines failed? Stewardess Don't worry, sir, Civil Aviation Authority regu lations say we can glide for 180 minutes if the engines fail from independent causes. — How did our engines fail? — The captain will let us know as soon as he finds out, Sir. -Thank goodness for that. Have I got time for a twin scotch? • For years a Mexicana Comet 4C lay derelict at O'Hare. It belonged to the owner of an Indiana nudist camp who never paid his bills. (It can't be easy if you have no pockets.) "We must save this Comet", said 25 members of the O'Hare Rotary Club. So they did, sell ing "Save The Comet" teeshirts and caps to buy the dear old de Havilland from the City of Chicago, which had impounded it. It is now being treated and dismantled by the Rotarians, who are loading it on to 15 rail- cars for shipment to a desert storage. The exact place will be selected by the US National Air and Space Museum, which has been offered, and will almost certainly accept, this rare surviving example of the world's first true jet transport. I think the only other complete Comet 4s are at Duxford, England, and at Seat tle, where Boeing apprentices have restored another Mexicana 4C and finished it in BOAC markings. Come on, birthplace of jet transport. Are there no nudist- camp owners at Hatfield? • I am told that RAF 8 Sqn Shackletons have a sticker which looks like a brass plaque, saying something like Avro Shackleton, on loan from the RAF Museum Hendon, please fly carefully. If they would like to enter it for the Roger Bacon Best Aviation Sticker Award they are certain to win, unless of course I receive a better one in the meantime, hint, nudge. • Capt Speaking, overheard by nephew Peter Middleton at Hamburg: "I'm sorry if you were expecting one of our new A320s, but we only have three of them and yours developed an hydraulic leak today. So we've had to substitute this old One- Eleven. Never mind. Indulge yourselves in a little nostalgia". • Boeing, trying hard to improve manufacturing quality, believes that this problem is part of a wider social problem. Says chairman Frank Schrontz: "We must pay a good deal of atten tion to the education of young people and, frankly, what I see Yes, aviation people are nice. Just watch your back, that's all. Bulldog as seen from a flying boat, c 1935) . (RAF Bristol of demographic projections is not encouraging . .. We cannot maintain our position as world leaders without an adequate pool of young people who possess both linguistic and mathematical skills. I see this as one of our nation's foremost challenges". There is no shortage of tech nically numerate and literate young people in other parts of the world. How long before Western parents start sending their children to be taught maths and English grammar in foreign schools? • Lufthansa maintenance engineer Franz Josef Darius: "We make sure there is no such thing as an old aircraft". "And like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp'd towers and the solemn temples shall dissolve, and by and by a cloud take all away" Left, Saro Cutty Sark, Hatfield, July 1933; right, Saro Cloud, Calshot, April 1935 42 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 22 April 1989
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