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STRAIGHT^ LEVEL De Havilland DH.88 Comet YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 "De-orbiting of redun dant spacecraft" = meteor shower. • "The sum of all that is used to determine the outcome of the milestone, which will occur late in 1994," says a vice-presi dent of McChoppers. The outcome of a milestone, Mr V-P, is at best a dent in your fender; at worst, it's a pile of rubble and an invoice from the road au thority that owned the milestone you hit. Still, it seems you've got until late 1994 to sign up for better auto insurance... • Seems the Russians have got fed up with Westerners branding their every new product a copy of a Western one (vide the Tu-144 "Con- cordski"), so they've de cided to do it themselves. Russian manufacturer Airbus Industrie service report A champagne cork popped last Wednesday as Scruggs Wunderplanes celebrated the completion of the lOOth-ever British airliner. An elated Sir Algernon Scruggs, 108, says: "This is a real milestone. The skies of the World will soon echo to the sound of the Scruggs Blunderbuss, especially if Ron Triplicate, our storeman, gets back from town with the spark-plugs, and we can get the left-hand flap-thingy to move when the right-hand one does. Customers cannot wait to cancel... er, I mean collect, their Blunderbusses. This is a giant success story." Asked whether it is true that Boeing has now built over 6,000 jet-powered airliners, and that the total includes 1,000 747s, Sir Algernon replies: "This jet thing is a passing fad. The airlines will soon return to the reliability, silence and smoothness of the World-renowned Thunderprop. Anyway, so what if they've built 1,000 747s? They haven't managed to build a 748 yet, have they..." Vickers Valetta production, Weybridge, February 1950 A shower of meteors, a cluster of stars, an explosion of comets? First there was the real G-ACSS, then there was the Antipodean taxiing replica, now there's the Californian flying (well, almost) replica. Replica Aircraft intends to fly this one on a replica of the Mildenhall-Australia route. Wonder if it's got replicas of de Havilland's loony now-youfeather-now-you-don't props, or even if it's programmed to do replicas of the Comet's famed ground-loop... Phazotron has called its new radar "Kopyo"... • Douglas McBoffin: "So what are the fancy mar keting boys going to call the Whizzbang army ver sion of our Pufftail chop per, then?" Rollo Freelunch: "Well, we had thought about 'MD Exploder'...." Q: How do you turn a pan-galactic Megadeath ICBM into a peaceful lit tle civilian satellite- launcher? A: Take the wheels off its launcher vehicle. • Speaking of which, is it just a co-incidence that the old SS-20 and SS-25 have been renamed "Start" launchers, seeing they have been civilian- ised under the terms of the START treaty? BUDGIE BARGAIN BLUES The US Department of be-i fensa (DoD)—has-^giyen Pakistan until 24 August to; /decide whedier it.will proceed with the $1.75 million purchase of 71 Lockheed F-16s. Paki stan halted progress payments in July, in protest at the US -^embargo on deliveiy.^^^^^i^-" s | /^Thc DoD has proposed three options. Pakistan can continue with the purchase of 60 F-16s to add to 11 already. Budgie News, 25-31 Au gust, 1993 members of the secretive, counter-terrorist Delta Force may indicate that Aideed's days Qf-srJTrrTdjitg'Wr' »nthe ratjkfare numbered. The etije lerican troops brought with 5em an array of high-tech equipment, including a P3 f Orion biplane with sophis ticated electronic Ustening de vices and high-resolution But DeltaJofCe is still dogged by 8 Delta farce" repututation for making its own mistakes. Some time in the next few days, the Rangers will again drop from their heliconters on The Sunday Times, Lon don, 3 September, 1993 • "F-16 touches 110° angle-of-attack", it says here. Wouldn't that be an angle-of-retreat? • Rollo Freelunch: "We are very pleased that the distinguished President of your country will come to open our new Megatron- ics inward-investment factory. It underlines the importance of the unique relationship between our country and yours. Will he be staying for lunch?" Otto Man: "Ah, sorry, no. He has to go down the road to open the new Megatronique inward- investment factory." .v; FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 15 - 21 September, 1993
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