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STRAIGHTPCTLEVEL DH.88 Comet Salazar in Portugese colours. It was originally G-ACSP, the first of the three 1934 MacRobertson London-Sydney race Comets, flown by the Mollisons as Black Magic in that event. All the Budgiephone lines were jammed, the Budgiefax ran out of paper, and the Budgiepost man refused to deliver any more'' letters (Straight and Level, 25 September - 1 October). Yes, it was 'High Flight' by John Gillespie Magee Jnr, RCAF, 1941. HIGH FLIGHT Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the sfeies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never lark, or even eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. There was such a jam of entries, all the correct ones went into Great Aunt Agatha's flying helmet and one was drawn. The lucky winner is Daniel Court of Prestwick, Scotland, and his chosen piccie, of the DH.88 Comet, is on its way UNCLE ROGER'S OVER-THE-HORIZON QUIZ Q) How can you foretell that an airline is about to go into Chapter 11 bank ruptcy protection? A)- The airline analyst of the year recommends buy ing the shares... CHAT-UPSPEAK Series of 6,000+ Boy: "Hey — you're a girl!" Girl: "Yeah — you can do whatever you want to me; just get me out of here!" (No, it's not Cynthia Strap-in handing in her resignation. That was the conversation between a search-and-rescue swim mer and Lt Linda Heid after she had become the first female to eject using a Martin-Baker seat, out of a US Navy Grumman A-6, off Florida...) YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 "Failure to -undergo type classification and redesig- nation will require off-line micromanagement which does not accommodate the Army system..." = let's just call it 'Blackhawk' • Not only did the Boeing 707 series go on for ever (or 37 years from first flight — Straight and Level, 18-24 September) but they made quite a lot of them. The 1,000th to be delivered (line number 1007) has just been deliv ered to the RAF as an AWACS Sentry E-3D. Boe ing actually built 1,010 707s and 720s, but allo cated them 1,012 line numbers because two were rebuilt as new aircraft. Number 1,012 is retained by Boeing as a test aircraft, and the 1,009th and last to be delivered will be num ber 995, which will be an E-6 for the US Navy. Con fusing? •NOW YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN F-27, it says AOPA UK, 50a Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4QQ, UK Dear Uncle Roger, Without wishing to detract from the historical claims by the famous Cinque Ports Flying Club (Straight and Level, 2-8 October), I must point out that AOPA corporate member the Lancashire Aero Club was founded in 1922. Unfortunately, the Lancashire Aero Club has a better past than a future, for through the efforts of the Salford City Council, its home at Barton Aerodrome is destined to be closed and to become a business park... DAVID OGILVY Executive vice chairman • Nephew David Ogilvy also points out that Manch ester Airport has a stated policy of "...discouraging and ultimately banning certain categories of general avia tion, in particular flying for training purposes for pleasure." For sure, anybody who's endured holding at John Wayne for 10 minutes in a 757 while Clarence E Whitenuckle III sorts out his Puddlejumper for take-off knows that little planes and big planes don't mix well — but Manchester is home for about 90 little planes at the moment: If it and Barton are closed to GA, Britain's third-biggest city will be closed to GA. Where will tomorrow's commercial pilots get their first air experience then? here*. It goes on to say: "The F-27 is taking the world by storm. It has crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific (3 times), won its class at the Plymouth Grand Prix...A new version of the F-27 has now been developed for amateur builders. Called the F-9A it's bigger (9.4m), roomier, faster..." Bet Schipol didn't think that two Darts on a sailplane wing, with pneu matic undercarriage legs, would be the makings of a transatlantic home-built long-distance racer — nor indeed be developed into a fighter for the Chinese — when they designed the Friendship in 1954... * Ad for an Ian Farrier trimaran — that's a boat, Brian. ' . with visits to its superb Egyptian Prices from £895. •*-nd me details df What is this? A Fokker-VFW 1228? An Airbus A170? Or is it true that passengers really won't booh long-range twins any more? Daily Telegraph, London, 5 October 1991 on • Not sure about all this high-Alpha stuff that those test-pilot Johnnies are on about (Straight and Level, 9-15 October)... What happens when they get up to 90 Alpha? Presumably, you end up using rudder for roll, and ailerons for yaw... Sounds like the per fect excuse for going back to wing-warping and per haps a little dynamic weight transer, really. • Brian Budgiescoop: "Do you have a telephone which I can use to rush this red-hot cabin-enter tainment exhibition news to the Budgie News Desk?" Miss Information: "Sorry, this phone is only for the use of Press Office staff. Journalists must use the pay-phones down the hall. What's so special about this story, anyway?" Budgiescoop: "Oh, it's just about how successfully your industry is adopting in-flight phones..." FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 16 - 22 October, 1991 47
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