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1992
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STRAIGHTS LEVEL A\ro Type E (500) Clarence E Whiteknuckle: "What will this great as sembly of almost 20 na tional AOPAs in Johan nesburg achieve — will anything be changed?" Nigel Spamcan: "Oh no. We won't change anything — except our minds." • South African Airways has a Casa-built Junkers Ju 52/3m which is known to its devoted crew as "Rat- tlestar Galactica". • Arise the Neddy who decided that Cat III deci sion heights are in feet, but that decision distances are in metres. You have an ally at Salamander books who's decided to blight Alfred Price's latest book on the Messerschmitt Bf 109* by declaring that its Daimler-Benz engine grew from "...7.46Imp gal (33.91itres) to 7.85Imp gal (35.71itres)..." You can just imagine him getting onto his 1.76 fluid-ounce moped and going down to the pub for a 0.2841itre of lemonade shandy, can't you... Captured German transmitter, 1943 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 by Alfred Price, Salamander Books, London, England. • Speaking of which, how many Nephews had for gotten that there was a carrier-borne version of the Bf 109 (the Bf 109T), complete with a tail-hook and folding wings? Or that there was the Mistel — a Bf 109 with a Junkers Ju.88 hung underneath it with a warhead where the pilots should have been, as a giant powered-but-un- guided bomb...? ROGERNOMICS Lesson 1,992,003 AIRPORT FINANCES There was this Canadian airport that decided to raise revenue by introduc ing a passenger tax. It didn't collect a cent — because all occupants of all general-aviation aircraft were "crew members"... • VEBEG GmbH of Frankfurt advertises three ex-East German Tu-134As ;ie News, two of which are equipped with "saloon furniture". Per haps if Birdseed Airways followed suit and fitted its Megafatties out with bar- stools, card tables, hon- key-tonk pianos and spitoons, maybe they'd solve the disappearing- load-factor syndrome... • On the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, over The following creed (screed?) appeared in the Roger- post tray bearing nothing other than what appear to be the greasy paw-prints of a kangaroo.... THE PROPER ATTITUDE "The airline transport pilot leaps tall buildings in a single bound, is more powerful than a Boeing 747, is faster than a speeding bullet, walks on water and discusses policy with God. The multi-engine pilot leaps short buildings in a single bound, is more powerful than a Boeing 707, is just as fast as a speeding bullet, walks on water if it is calm, and talks to God. The instrument pilot leaps short buildings with a running start and favourable conditions, is almost as powerful as a Learjet, nearly as fast as a speeding bullet, walks on the water of an indoor pool, and talks to God if a special request is approved. The commercial pilot leaves high marks when attempting to leap short buildings, loses a tug-of-war with a twin- engined aircraft, can fire a speeding bullet, swims well and is occasionally addressed by God. The private pilot barely clears a camping tent, is run over by single-engined aircraft, sometimes recognises a speed ing bullet, can dog-paddle, and talks to animals. The soloed student pilot runs into buildings, recognises a Cessna 172 two times out of three, has never seen a speeding bullet, can stay afloat if properly instructed, and talks to water. The non-soloed pilot falls over door sills when trying to enter buildings, says "Look at the aeroplanes", wets himself with a water pistol and mumbles to himself. The Engineer lifts buildings and walks under them, kicks aeroplanes out of hangars, catches speeding bullets with his teeth and chews them, and freezes water with a single glance. The engineer is God..." 3,000km southwest of Ha waii, researchers have found a piece of aircraft skin which they are "90% sure" comes from the Lockheed Electra which Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were piloting when they disappeared in July 1937 during a round- the-world flight. They've found other artifacts, like a piece of a shoe, and a medicine-bottle cap, both of US origin, and have tracked down a British of ficial who reported signs of life on the atoll (then called Gardner Island) when he visited there in October 1937. Perhaps one of the great aviation mysteries is close to being solved... NOUVELLES HISTOIRES ui imnect over /o muujuim ^u^.i^u <uiu u thousand tons of freight and mail. In the 50s the Soviet aircraft industry created the world's first turbo-jet passen ger airliner — Tupolev TU-104. In 1956 it was launched to serve the international airways and on October 12 started to carry out scheduled flights over the Moscow-Prague airroute Aesroflot was two years ahead of British and US airlines in this respect, since they started to operate jet air craft Kometa and Boeing-707 on a regular basis only in 1958. Aeroflot annual report, 1990 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 12 - 18 February, 1992 39
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