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Aviation History
1994
1994 - 0040.PDF
STRAIGHT m LEVEL YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 Pressurised Mid-Deck Augmentation Module = Fuselage plug • Just in case you didn't notice, a new aircraft manufacturer was launched just before the end of 1993. It already has factories: its first product, the BD-700- 1A10 is due to go into service in 1998, and will cost around $30 million. The manufacturer has or ders for over 30 examples already. Nice way to start up, isn't it. And you're still wondering who it is? Bombardier, of course, which has decided that airlines and airports. They're wrong. Grandfa thers are notorious for assuming the right to be indulgent and over-gener ous to youngsters even when the youngsters' par ents wish they wouldn't be, which is exactly how the Euroneddies want the grandfather airlines to be have... • The latest effort of that most prolific of aviation- book writers, Bill Gun- ston*, dishes up several reminders of just how many apparently promis ing aircraft projects (in this case, jet-powered bombers) have been abandoned before they • If your aircraft suddenly dives, do not immediately panic. Remember Aeroflot pilots are trained fighter pilots, which makes them highly skilled. • Finally, hang on to your sense of humour. Most flights do arrive, eventually. Financial Times, London, 13 December 1993 the Canadair Global Ex press is going to be a Bombardier Global Ex press, and it will probably be made in a de Havilland factory, so all say "Aaah". • The Euroneddies are getting all excited about Grandfather rights, which they think are bad for could realise that prom ise. Almost without ex ception, in this book as in others, it is the Neddies (and even more so, the Top Kneddies) who are assigned the blame for cutting off aviation's flower buds before they had a chance to open. Sometimes, this has 604 County of Middlesex Squadron, and that must be an early Hawker Demon that they're leaning on, 1936 happened because the Neddies realised they had got it wrong, and that no matter how cleverly or slavishly Scruggs Wun- derplanes had followed the brief, they didn't want the Wonderjet anyway, and would you go away and have a tax loss now, please, unless you wouldn't mind just going bust instead, would you? Much more often, though, it was all down to deficiencies, and a jolly lot of deficiencies we've had over the years, haven't we... Gunston and collabora tor Peter Gilchrist de scribe such Wunder- flugwagennen as the Convair YB-60, Martin XB-48, BAC TSR.2 and Gloster Meteor F.8, Linton-on-Ouse, 1951 Myasischyev M-50 which for various reasons didn't make it, and a lot of others which had as many deficiencies (politi cal and/or technical), but did. Uncle Roger's latest challenge to the Nephews and Nieces is to produce a list of even one project that was cancelled by the Neddies even though it was on time, on spec AND on budget... * Jet Bombers, by Bill Gunston, with Peter Gilchrist, Osprey, 81 Fulham Rd, London SW3 6RB. • Come to think of it, is there a Neddie out there anywhere who has ever done anything on time, on spec and on budget? AIRCREW MEDICAL SPECIAL Atlanta airport, USA 38 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 5-11 January, 1994
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