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1995 - 0405.PDF
— STRAIGHT A IS mi A V Roe's Roe 1 Triplane, July 1909. This machine ("...with self aboard" as Roe put it when writing to Flight in June 1909) weighed 4001b and relied on just 10BHP from its JAP motorcycle engine. Roe tilted and twisted the main- planes of this machine for control. "I usually run along with main-planes at a slight angle; this allows machine to gain speed and the tail to rise; on increas ing the angle ofmain-planes to about 10° the front comes off the ground, but owing to insufficient thrust it soon comes down again..." HISTORYUCKSPEAK Series of One Thousand Thousand "Aerobifoidal pterygoidal aerodrome" = biplane (Jl'C Moore-Brabazon, 1909) • Capt Speaking: "Well, Son. It's nice to have youngsters up here to visit, but I've got to get this Bucketjet ready for take off now, so you'll have to go back to your seat." First Officer Here: "But I'm your co-pilot, Sir..." TOYS FOR THE BOYS A never-ending problem for Total Aviation Parents is what to buy their Total Aviation Offspring for Christmas/birthday/what ever. If you've got a spare EXCUSE-ME-MY-AEROPLANE- IS-BROKENDEPT Consomme aux ailerons farcis ou Veloute Dubarry Menu from Kulm Hotel, StMoritz $20 million lying around next Christmas, why not follow the lead of a certain prince in Brunei, and treat junior to his own Black Hawk helicopter? You could even, like him, throw in a customised platinum interior... What do you buy son number two, then? No Problem: why not follow one Arab prince's example and get IDENTITY CRISIS SPECIAL Canadian Regional F28 him a Lockheed TriStar. Throw in an extra $5 mil lion for the once-over at HAECOand$35 million for a new interior, includ ing Jacuzzis and matching cockpit instrument panel, and you can't go wrong... What your Uncle (who foolishly omitted to be descended from a TAPrince) wants to know is: how do you persuade somebody to give you a nice Mosquito (or even make you a Hornet) for Christmas? • Schiphol wants a fifth runway and will probably get it by 2003; Heathrow wants a fifth terminal and will prob ably get a fifth deferment /"9 /*? of its planning application by then. w 75 YEARS AGO ••• Extracts front Flight, February 26,1920 Flying and Curious Phenomena In answer to your letter appearing in Flight of February 12,1 would tell you that if you had dived on that occasion you would have seen the top of the rainbow, and halfway to the ground you would have seen die rainbow completely round. Willy Coppens, Belgian Air Attache in London ••• The First Decisive Air War The cause of the Mad Mullah's downfall in Somali land was the employment of air power in the shape of a single unit of the RAF... and it was all done at a cost of £30,000 against an estimated figure of £7 million, had the campaign been con ducted on the original plan, without the co operation of air power. Really, further comment is, indeed, superfluous. ••• Paris to Warsaw An official American air service was inaugurated last week between Paris and Warsaw. This is all to the good of ambassadorial and commercial aviation, but it seems quaint tbat the service should be American, as, surely, the United States of America are still (nominally) at War with Germany? How, then, will the occupants of the aircraft stand if some over-zeal ous German pots or bags them during their trans- German journeying? We wonder. ••• Morse in Space We also wonder if that four hundredweight meteorite, which arrived in France the other day, is a billet doux from Saturn or some other preco cious planet... Just fancy, if they are slinging messages at us in dots and dashes, and this is part of a dot, maybe their dashes will take the form of 100-tonner aeroliths. The London-Paris weather chart at Hounslow FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 22 - 28 February 1995
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