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LETTERS WHAT'S ON 17 January, 1991 Evening lecture "Design for future combat rotorcraft — a pilot's perspective" by Lt Cdr R I Horton, ETPS. RAeS young techni cians and students section. Contact: Conference Office, RAeS, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1V OBQ, UK; tel: +44 (071) 499 3515. 18 January 1991 Conference "Trans port solutions for improved cost and efficiency". Copthorne Hotel, Bir mingham, UK. Contact: Sue Levy; tel: +44 (071) 412 0142; fax +44 (071) 412 0144. 23 January 1991 "Express package services". RAeS conference. Contact: Conference Office, RAeS, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1V OBQ, UK; tel: +44 (071) 499 3515. 24 January 1991 "Small satellites". RAeS astronautics group conference, Culham Laboratory, Didcot, UK. Con tact; Conference Office, RAeS, 4 Ha milton Place, London W1V OBQ, UK; tel: +44 (071) 499 3515. 29 January 1991 Ballantyne Memorial Lecture for Young People. RAeS avi onics systems group conference. Con tact: Conference Office, RAeS, 4 Ha milton Place, London W1V OBQ, UK; tel: +44 (071) 499 3515. 30 January, 1991 Half day meeting "Technology for human powered air craft". RAeS human powered aircraft group. Contact: Conference Office, RAeS, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1V OBQ, UK; tel: +44 (071) 499 3515. 3-5 February, 1991 Conference — subject: "Competition in the Euro pean and Asia/Pacific Air Transport Markets", sponsored by the Interna tional Civil Airports Association, Ori ental Hotel, Singapore. Contact: Siobhan Savage, Conference Secretary, ICAA European Community Bureau, c/o Regie des Voies Aeriennes (Suite 3127/8), CCN Gare du Nord, rue du Progres 80, B-1210 Bruxelles, Bel gium; tel: +32 (2) 212 24 48; fax: +32 (2) 212 24 60. 6-8 February, 1991 International Freight, Trade and Transport Exhibi tion, Hong Kong. Details: Tricia Neill, Event Director, World Trade Promo tions Ltd, 19-21 High Street, Sutton, Surrey SMI INF, UK; tel: +44 (081) 642 7688; fax: +44 (081) 642 1313. 11-13 February Conference: "Finan cial Opportunities in European Avia tion for the 1990's", Brighton, UK. Contact: Jan Marshall, Lloyd's of Lon don Press, One Singer St, London EC21 4LQ; tel: +44 (071) 250 1500; fax: +44 (071) 499 6230. 17 Febru- ary-8 March. "Management of Airport Maintenance & Engineering", Jordan. 7-26 April "Airport Commercial Man agement", Europe. Contact: Michel Desjardins, 2001, rue University, 20th etage, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A6; tel: +1 (514) 843 6116; fax: +1 (514) 843 8666. Shear stupidity on wind hazard SIR — In the interesting article "Collision Alert" (Flight Interna tional, 22-28 August, 1990), Guy Norris refers to windshear detection and guidance systems and remarks that "...The hazard seems to be geographically re stricted to the continental USA and outside North America the subject rarely merits coverage". It would be a pity if pilots reading the article were left with the unfortunate and dangerous impression that the windshear hazard is restricted to the conti nental USA. While the view has been ex pressed from time to time that perhaps the more violent mani festations of thunderstorm windshear, such as the micro- burst, are more prevalent in the continental USA than elsewhere, this phenomenon has been re ported from other regions. From my reading of the litera ture on the subject, I think most meteorologists would reserve judgement until more detailed observational data became avail able following the installation of more Doppler radars outside the continental USA in the future. As far as non-thunderstorm windshear is concerned, such as that associated with low-level jet streams, mountain waves, etc, these phenomena are quite as prevalent outside the conti nental USA as inside. It is appreciated that this particular part of the article was attempting to make the point that, in the author's view, there was rarely any merit in install ing windshear detection and guidance systems on aircraft op erating outside the continental USA. This view itself is, of course, open to discussion, but it would be most unfortunate if, at the same time, pilots operat ing outside the continental USA were misled into relaxing their vigilance when flying in meteor ological conditions having the potential to produce windshear. WILLIAM FROMME DIRECTOR Air Navigation Bureau 1000 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal Quebec Canada H3A 2R2 Li-2 was inscribed "Polar Aviation" An abandoned Arctic Li-2 SIR — In the article "The Rus sians are Coming" (Flight Inter national, 19 December-1 Janu ary, 1991), the photograph at the bottom of P 21 is not that of an 11-14. It depicts the wreck of an Li-2 (Soviet-built DC-3), number CCCP-04214, which was damaged at Christmas 1968 in a landing accident and aban doned by the Russians. It has since'©gen damaged further and blown onto its back by strong winds and blizzards. The loca tion is Rumdoodle some 11km (7 miles) from Mawson. The photograph (above) shows a panel, cut from the nose of this Li-2 in 1981, which carries the inscription Polar Aviation. It is now a part of my collection. ROBERT RUFFLE Russian Aviation Research Group of Air-Britain 18 Henderson Walk Steyning West Sussex BN44 3SG, UK Case of mistaken aircraft identity SIR — I would like to point o.ut that the type of aircraft involved in the accident reported in your "Casualties" —"Italy (Flight International, 19 December-1 January) is an MB.326 and not an MB.339, as published. D VERDE Via C F Albani 11 00165 Rome, Italy WHAT'S ON 19-21 February, 1991 Exhibition and conference: "Air Traffic Control '91", Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contact: Jane Hadfield, Expoconsult (UK), 8 Martinfield Centre, Martinfield, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK, AL7 1HG; tel: +44 (707) 376565. February 1991 Conference "Competi tion in the European and Asia/Pacific Air Transport Markets", sponsored by the ICAA,Oriental Hotel, Singapore. Contact: Siobahn Savage, Conference Secretary, ICAA European Commu nity Bureau, c/o Regie des Voies Aeriennes (Suite 3127/8), CCN Gare du Nord, rue de Progres 80, B-1210 Bruxelles, Belgium; tel: =32 2 212 24 48; fax: +32 1 212 24 60 21-22 February, 1991 Conference "Fifth Annual Geneva Aircraft Finance Forum", Geneva. Contact: Julian Graves, IIR, 28th Floor, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DD, UK; tel: +44 (071) 379 8040; fax: +44 (071) 412 0143/0146. 25 February-1 March 1991 Sympo sium: "Airport economics and fi nance". The Polytechnic of Central London, 35 Marylebone Road, Lon don NW1 5LS, UK. Contact: PCL Transport Studies Group; tel: +44 (071) 911 5000, ext 3089; fax: +44 (071) 911 5057; telex 25964 PCL G. 4-22 March 1991 Course/seminar "Aviation Safety Management", San Diego, California. Contact: David H Holladay, Director, ICAS, PO Box 3069, Del Mar, California 920146069, USA; tel: +44 619-792-7511; fax: +44 619-792-7512. 6-9 March 1991 Exhibition "Airtran '91: the future in aviation today". Terminal B, Son Sant Joan, Palma Airport, Majorca. Contact: IFEBAL; tel: +34 (971) 45 55 00; fax: +34 (971) 45 12 21; telex 68594 COCINE. 13-20 March 1991 Hanover Fair CeBIT '91 "Satellite Business", Ha nover, West Germany. Contact: "Sat ellite Business" Presse-und Offentlich- keitsarbeit Karlstr. 37, D-7900 Ulm/ Donau, West Germany; tel: +49 0731 152034; fax: +49 0731 152071. 19-21 March 1991 Conference: "EastWest Interfreight '91", Budapest, Hungary. Contact: Kate Langmuir, Marketing Manager, CS Conferences & Exhibitions, 54 Cheam Common Rd, Worcester Park, Surrey KT4 8RJ, UK. Tel: +44 (4481) 330 3911; fax +44 (4481) 330 5112. The opinions expressed in these pages do not necessarily represent those of the Editor. Flight International cannot undertake to publish letters without name and address and reserves the right to select or edit letters. 56 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 9-15 January, 1991
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