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STRAIGHTS LEVEL Supermarine Spitfire Mkl, after a forced landing (lack of fuel) near Scarborough, Yorkshire, 12 July, 1939 Bottom Foggy: "Why did you change the designa tion of your new chopper from LH to RAH?" Gen Strike: "Because it changed from being a Light Helicopter to being a Raised-Avoirdupois Heli copter." • Back in the 1960s, VFW and Fokker decided to put M45H engines above the wing of their 614 regional airliner. The customers ignored it to death (although the Ger man Luftwaffe still has three, one of which is being used for slippery- engine trials) and Fokker went on to make the emi nently sensible rear-engi- ned F.28. In the 1980s, Embraer decided to put the engines above the wing of its EMB-145 re gional airliner. The cus tomers ignored that idea to death, and Embraer has now proposed a rear- engined 145. Wonder what the Lake amphibian would go like with two General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon First flown in 1974, the F-16 has become one of the west's most important warplanes and more than 3000 have been ordered by air forces around the world. As a tactical fighter, it is designed to carry air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons. I-Spy for 5 REGINALD S POTTER'S REVENGE Those nice people who make Michelin tyres pro duced this helpful little book. Hope the Michelin tyre fitter doesn't use it for reference... Lycomings at the back in stead of one over the YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 "Temporal continuity from concept to in-orbit" = we believe it will work. RESTORATION SPECIAL While Graham Warner's British team toils towards getting a Bristol Blenheim (or is it a Bolingbroke, Blenoke or Bolheim?) back in the air, on the other side of the world Ralph Cusack of Queensland, Australia, is well on the way to getting a Beaufort airborne again. The sight of two Bristol twins in the air together again would really be worthwhile... • ...meanwhile, the mem bers of the Association des Constructeurs de Repli- ques d'Avions Anciens in France are building a full- scale, flying replica of a Spitfire. Aha, avancez Ven- tente cordiale, etc. Mais what is this? Sucre bleu! Monsieur Mitchell's finest metal monocoque is being recreated tout en bois, or, as your average Angry of Angleterre would say: "...in bleedin' wood!" Not ROGERNOMICS Lesson 1,992,993 THE DECLINE OF THE LIGHT AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY Well, Brian, if this GAMA release is right, they priced themselves out of the market, didn't they? He was speaking at the industry's annual press briefing where manufacturers revealed they had shipped fewer airplanes to dealers and customers than in any other year since World War H. The industry shipped a lota! of 1,021 airplanes worth 51,968 billion. only that, this "Spitfire" is not powered by the ever- scarcer Rolls-Royce Mer lin, but by the practically extinct Hispano-Suiza 12 X CRS of but 700 horses, as built for the nipped-in- the-bud Dewoitine 500. All this is very worthy, but isn't there a Packard Mer lin sculling around some where that could make this into more of a Spitfire, and doesn't your uncle re member a recently auc tioned kit of parts to make a Dewoitine that could certainly benefit from an airworthy Hispano engine? The airline will have a start-up capital of $30 million to 35 million. Transcontinental Airlines will fly six turbo prop 737-500s, carry ing up to 90 people. It will employ 660 staff for its six planes. "Compare that with Com pass, which had 1,000 staff fcr five aircraft," Mr King said. Sun Herald, Sydney, 12 January, 1992 • British Airways News quotes a retiring Air Lin- gus Captain Speaking: "When I first started in this profession, I used to find flying dangerous and sex fun. These days the roles have reversed." This must be some sort of sub tle recruitment campaign by Air Lingus: is there anywhere else in the world where constant battling against slot congestion, airways thrombosis, ex tended crew rostering, flight-engineer depriva tion, cargo inebriation, threatened redundancy and attacks of bean- counter meddling is seen as FUN? • According to The Sun day Times of London, one of the developments which helped gain the great Joe Sutter his place in its list of "1,000 makers of the '20th century" was his co-development of "slotted flats". Presuma bly, that's where ATCO Annie and her colleagues live... It's a Lockheed C-130K Hercules, and Her Majesty had given this lot a packed lunch and some pocket money, and sent them off to the Caribbean to practise being operational... bO FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 22 - 28 January, 1992
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