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1997 - 0042.PDF
STRAIGHT A LEVEL 75 YEARS AGO ••• Extracts from Flight, January 3,1922 Fifth Half-Yearly Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation Good as the figures are, they do not disclose a very progressive and promising state of affairs as com pared with what is being done, and particularly what is being planned, by other nations, chiefly in the mat ter of Government subsidy... Out of a total number of aircraft arrivals and departures from and to the Continent of 2,360 during the six months under review, British machines account for only 671... ••• Meanwhile, in America According to a review compiled by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, civilian flying increased considerably during 1921. Twelve hundred aircraft were operated by civil ians, flying a total of more than 6,500,000 miles, and carrying approximately 275,000 passengers. ••• A Terrible Prospect According to the Star - which, perhaps, is not to be taken too seriously - there is a scheme on foot for using the London-Lympne air route for the purpose of advertising the wares of a well-known firm of pick le and preserve manufacturers. It is, so the Star tells us, die intention to lay down enormous ground signs showing white on a black ground by day, and to be outlined by innumerable electric lamps by night, extolling the excellencies of the "57 varieties". As though this were not bad enough, it is further intend ed to employ small, fast aeroplanes, flown by "stunt" pilots, to write smoke signs in the sky - signs that will be visible to all within a wide radius and which, on a quiet day, will be legible for quite a time... We are firm believers in the virtues of advertising, but there are limits, and, diis grandiose scheme seems to surpass the limit of what is allowable either on the grounds of good taste - which has no particular appeal to a cer tain class of advertising man - or public policy. ••• The New Royal Air Force Club During the War Lord Cowdray promised to give the RAF a Club-house, furnished and equipped complete, and that promise has now been fulfilled in a magnificent building known as No 128 Piccadilly, which, including leases, represents a gift of £345,000. Avro Avian at Lympne, 1928, with owners Mr and Mrs F P Rayi UNCLE ROGER'S TOTAL AVIATION BOOKSHELF Wings over Suez, by Brian Cull with David Nicolle and Shlomo Aloni; pub lished by Grub Street, The Basement, 10 Chivalry Rd, London SW11 IHT.UK Account of the Sinai and Suez conflicts of 1956, including the background and build-up to those con flicts and the politics which led to the humiliation of the UK and France in their aftermath. Hits: use of personal accounts from people involved on all four side (UK, France, Egypt and Israel) gives both veracity and balance to the story; obviously deeply resear ched; the Mother of In dices, broken down by country and subjects such mind- (whose as personnel, places, air units, naval/merchantshippingetc; fascinating pics; Misses: almost numbing detail wedding were Israeli pilots attending when I called out?) and endless tables ofij orders of battle can get in th way of the nar rative; some the personal accoun little to, or simply repeat, what has already been said by others;reproduction of pics very poor. TAB RATING [X| Top Shelf Planespeak: "Merger" = "We wish to merge our executive development pro gram with your executive outplacement program..." • The Boeing "merger" with McDonnell Douglas isn't the first expression of interest by Seattle's finest in its southern neighbour: Service launched SEOUL - Philippine Airlines has launched a thrfce-veek- from Manila to : Gazette, 6 December 1996 back in the late '30s, Bill Boeing was one of the — very few — customers for the Douglas DC-5. A bit like Victor Kayam liking his Remington razor so much that he bought the compa ny, only waiting die thick end of 60 years to do it... Budgie Blue Christmas OK: if it's got a training pod underneath and a big door, it's a Varsity, not a Valetta; if it's on a Varsity's right wing- tip, it must be a Vampire T.l 1 not a Venom; and if it's pear-shaped and going hypersonically, it's the Budgie News reggie-spotter looking for a new job... YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 Harmony Image Generator = CRM training manual. Hampshire Air Pageant, Hamble, 1928 40 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1 - 7 January 1997
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