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——- STRAIGHT A LEVEL OK: the Christmas quiz score is, as ever, slightly in favour of the TAPs... Nephew J B M van Haaster of Alkmaar in The Netherlands raises a few valid points. He reckons the Heinkel He 280 first flew on 2 April 1941: Green & Swanborough claim three days earlier. Your Uncle's failing eye sight failed to detect that a DC-2 licence had become a DC-3 one, and some body forgot to list "Schwalbe" as the other Me 262 name. As for the rotter who miscaptioned our Canadair NF-5A a Northrop F-5, and your naughty Uncle for not spelling out Institutio Aerotecnico I.Ae 27 Supermarine S.6B, 1931 45,259 R-2800s and 65,060 R-1830s in its grand total of 125,463 engines. For the different ly digitised, that's over 340 engines a day, every day... IT'S BETTER BY TUNNEL DEPT Diversion Fuel • Whilst diversion distances quoted from UK destinations should represent realistic track distances, those for overseas destinations may not. Do take car to satisfy yourself that you have selected a realistic diversion fuel. Airtours flight crew notice Pulqui-1, well, what more can be said? • Going back to engines in general, and those 168,040 Merlins in partic ular (S&L, 23-29 November, 1994), Nephew Peter Robertson notes that Pratt & Whitney and licensees made "only" 125,443 R- 2800s in a 16-year run. In mitigation for this tiny number, he does point out that in 1944 it made • There. Those naughty Russians and Ukrainians have done it again. While the Ministry of Things and the Flugwag- ennenburo and the Direction Generate des Affaires de la Selection des Avions pour l'Armee de l'Air are arguing over whether we should have turbofans or turboprops on the FLA, or whether we should have turbofans on the FLA and turbo- props on the ATF, or Fokker F.la-3m of Philadelphia Rapid Transport Air Service, 1926 whether perhaps after all we should just appoint a Commission to investigate what sort of tea we should drink during the delibera tions, they only go and fly the ultimate compromise, don't they? Of course the propfan isn't a British invention, is it, and after all these foreign chappies haven't built any signifi cant heavy lifters apart from the An-124, the An- 225, the An-22 and the An-12, have they? Rolls" ties to Allison go back to the Second World War. when they produced the A7 fighterplane. Symbol ically, on the table at the Sunday Telegraph, London, 21 November, 1994 Brian Bigbird: "Another great year. Our figures show that we have hero ically retained leadership in commercial aircraft sales." Al Toulouse: "Ah, excuse me. Let me add up our fig ures in the light of your figures. I think it is per haps us who have glorious ly wrested the lead in commercial aircraft sales for the first time, no?" Douglas MacBoffin: "Yeah, but we sold more rear-engined twins and tri- jets than both of you put together." em 75YEARSAGO ••• Extracts from Flight, January 8, 1920 Prohibition of Flying Once again Mr H Prevost Battersby has set out his very honest and well-meaning protestations in regard to the possibilities and terrors of war from the air. His song is the same as before, if a bit more pro nounced in tone. It is simply that the possible hor rors to which aircraft may subject the peoples of this world are, in the hands of a ruthless enemy, so appalling that it would be better to forbid, lock, stock and barrel, the entire art of flying for now and all time. He says that if "all adventure in the air were absolutely forbidden by the League of Nations, and if war were deferred for a generation, there would be none left who knew how to fly". Place Names At last a start has been made to elaborate the placing of names of towns and localities on sta tion roofs throughout the country. In time, every station in the United Kingdom should be so adorned for the benefit of pilots. The Vickers Vigilant Messrs Vickers Ltd are engaged upon the construc tion of a new machine, to be called the "Vigilant". As it is for the RAF, details are naturally not available, but it is stated that the machine will have eight 700hp Rolls-Royce "Condor" engines and be capa ble of carrying up to 100 passengers. Aircraft and Wireless Arrangements are being made to establish a cen tral wireless station under the Air Ministry for the collection of intelligence as to the move ments of travelling aircraft and the meteorology of the upper air. Looping the Loop Last week was recorded the performance of M Pillon, the French pilot, who, at a height of between 300 and 350 yards, looped the loop 29 times in five minutes. Now we're waiting for the record at a cou ple of yards above terra firma! Ex-Kaiser in Residence Was it by accident or a coincidence that ex- Kaiser Wilhelm, who wept so copiously at even the thought of his henchmen insisting upon bombing London, selected Amerongen (Am a wrong 'un) for his exiled residence? Or was it a subtle form of breaking-it-by-degrees confes sion? We wonder. 46 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 11 - 17 January 1995
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