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LETTERS Environmental problems with new supersonics SIR—In your interesting article "Mission to Mach 25" (Flight, May 6), you reported that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas envisage 1,200/1,600 300-passenger High Speed Civil Transports operating at around Mach 3 by 2050. Were such a number of these aircraft to be built, there would be enough to BANG every spot on the globe three times per day*. Of course, in practice, these shocks would not be spread evenly, but would be heavily concentrated in certain areas—hopefully only over the sea. Even so, we would be wise to remember that the sea is not empty. Millions of birds, marine mammals, and fish live there. In a "greening" world, questions will increasingly be asked as to whether man inflict such wide spread fright and shock on his fellow creatures. You report that the study teams working on this project agree that technology can over come environmental problems. One would like to hear how they propose to overcome the jumbo- booms that "Jumbo Concordes" would otherwise produce. R. D. MORRELL 3 Sloane Court East Chelsea London SW3 'Assumes six hours flying per day and boom carpets 30/40 miles wide. Aline to remember SIR—Dr Perry's comment that there are instructors over the age of 65 (Letters, May 6) must have brought a wry smile to the face of any who were fortunate enough to log their ab initio hours at Fair- oaks about the mid-1960s. At that time, when it was becoming common to demon strate an incipient spin rather than subject the valuable paying customers to the real thing, the CFI there would wait until a suit able number of hours were logged on a Piper Colt and then spring the big shock. Scot' •-* ' i ;.';ansatlantic gates SIR—/ icncy and e em to be Goverr. , , we have airlines such as Air 1 NI being f i rise to use lo ick as the .way. despite the fact that the flight- itself originates in Glasgow. Thus the 757 lea only t< Prestwick. * The same farce occurs This si • pass :ngers and Jirhnes The great merit of Gl - '.irport is its proximity (15 minutes) to the cit with - UK. Prestw • • .•'',• from any- major con, • d has poor transport links. On Sundays one is faced with a one-h' becai - . ss .u Prestw • ion too late for • He • 4 rxr * r r>v\.* t ,n! vi check-in time—Northwest being the only airline, to operate ices to the USA. agues cannot understand why they are to led to fly to "the middle of nowhere" rather than to Gl 'i burgh airports. It is known that Br< Airways, American Airlines, and Wardair (who ah- operate a limited schedule to would operate flights from Glasgow if it was ;t nu- (BA gave up • routes m !) The increased revenue from such operations would bring economic benefits to the UK as a whole. The airlines want to operate from Glasgow, not 1 its'wick, and " i offer passengers :c * con venience. KEITH MILLAR 33 Wp-,- - Crescent ! %den Glasgow G61 2DE He would wheel out Tiger G-AOAC, find a suitable cushion, and explain the mysteries of the Gosport tube. He had a disdain for American tricycles, and by the time we returned from the Hog's Back 1 was somewhat cowed but wiser after trying simultaneously to count each time the spire of Guildford cathe dral came around and poke in the correct opposite rudder. Wg Cdr Cyril Arthur had an innate ability to communicate not only skills but that intangible love of the art coupled to a right mix of cautious humility. We never dared to ask his age, but 1 got a clue one day when we all sat about grounded by weather. Someone asked him about the biggest advance he had ever seen in aircraft design. He stunned the assembly into silence and awe with his reply. "1 think it was those moving ailerons. We used to warp the wing, you know." MICHAEL REYNOLDS Tiglin Ashford Co. Wicfelow Republic of Ireland Absent BAe SIR—The Guinness Peat Aviation advertisement in your May 6 issue says: "We are proud that the great names of aircraft and engine manufacturing are included in our orders". Doesn't British Aerospace rate as a "great name"? BAe is conspicuous by its absence from the list of eight airframe and five engine manufacturers which have been, on the receiving end of $30 billion-worth of orders for 819 new aircraft. Why, 1 wonder, is there no place in the GPA portfolio for the 146, ATP, or Jetstream? MARK ANDREWS 12 Boundary Drive Benges Hertford SGI4 3JQ Comets saved Dear Uncle Roger—We must all applaud those de Havilland enthusiasts in Chicago who rescued the Comet from the nudist camp (Straight & Level, April 22), but some of us started saving Comets ten years ago. We bought our Comet 4B, G-APYD, from Dan-Air in Octo ber 1979, a week after it made its last passenger flight, and they flew it into our store at Wroughton, near Swindon. Since then it has been joined by nine other airliners, all kept under cover in the hangars. We have seven open days this year, when we would be happy to see you. J. A. BAGLEY Curator Aeronautics Collection Science Museum London SW7 2DD Capt Joe Wright brings Comet G-APYD into Wroughton on 1 November, 1979. See Mr Bagley's letter S$000W$0M FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 3 June 1989 57
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