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STRAIGHT [£i LEVEL "I'm sorry, gentlemen, you can't \ea\e that here ..." (Stampe SVa of la Patrouille d'Etamps, Barton Airfield, 1950) J Burlingtonav Wide-bodski: "We want you to y this wonderful new American jet on our trans atlantic services." Captain Lech Speaking: "Niet. We want to fly old, unreliable Soviet aircraft which will break down and force us to have long lay overs in New York." First Officer Hereski: "But if we convert to the new American airliners we might be able to get jobs in the West. . ." Capt Lech Speaking; "Tak. We start flying the new aircraft tomorrow. What gifts do you want from New York?" • ". . . and in 1969 you will find cinema patrons watching the British Pathe News report about Apollo II's manned Moon-land ing," it says here.* Itimust have been reassuring for Messrs Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins to know that there was a backup to Apollo 11 parked just up the crater, so to speak- . . . *Press release from Parkfield about its "A year to remember" re-release of Pathe News on video. # Beech's manager—sys tems engineering for the T-1A Jayhawk Tanker/ Transport Training System project is Claude Foltz . . . BUDGIE BLUES Series of l,errr, repeating 2.222 "Infra-fred telescope" (4-10 "... that slot's reserved for the Fleet Air Arm." (Blackburn Baffin of 810 Squadron at North Coates Fitties, 1935) April): for spotting the components of Frankly Ri diculous Electronic De vices, gathering deep in space in preparation for an other Big Bang? # "Accommodation for six thousand meals a day at British Aerospace", says ca terer Gardner Merchant— presumably in the space where they should be making Airbus wings . . . 0 Boeing had a 48-day strike last year, is late with its deliveries, is re-organis ing its military and space divisions for obvious rea sons—and it made a profit Yes, that's the LH on the, er, um . . . any-way, note the new-style unshrouded tail rotor and the stealth colour scheme, and that's Boeing's caption writer in the middle Boeing Sikorsky First Team has unveiled a mockup of proposed new Light Helicopter (LH) for the U.S. Army.* stealth" techniques and enhance its effectiveness The its The high-technology craft uses composite plastic structures to and reduce its vulnerability to battle damage. of $302 million in the first quarter of this year. Airbus suffered a 13-week strike at its wing supplier, it late with its deliveries, is re organising its corporate structure to make it look like a normal company— and will make a profit before 1995 .. . # Meanwhile, Continen tal Airlines made a first- quarter profit of $21.3 mil lion, of which $69.7 million came from settling a court case. Anybody know a good lawyer? # This week, Dick Cheney wants nearly to halve the order for B-2s. At this rate, he'll have the numbers down to single figures by the end of the year. Perhaps he's been reading about the only gen uinely long-range unde tected strategic bombing sorties of the last umpteen years (the "Black Buck" Vulcan raids from Ascen sion Island to the Falklands). In those, the ordnance was dropped by just one aircraft per mission and, yes, the aircraft in question was tailless and, yes, "Black" is an acronym for "stealth"—but is the B-2 fitted with buddy-buddy refuelling systems? SPOTTER SPEAK Library of 146,000 Nephew Michael Hamence passes on the Air Wiscon sin nickname for its BAe 146s—"Pudgie". Next -week: "How to make a cruise missile from a Brabazon throttle lever, three copies of CAP 548 and a smokehood". (Cutting from Intermediate Technology mailing). FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 9-15 May 1990
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