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1997
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STRAIGHT A LEVEL 75 YEARS AGO ••• Extracts from Flighty May 4,1922 Slight Improvements On Saturday the third of the Daimler Airway DH 34s was delivered. Mr Heme, who piloted it over from De Havilland's factory at Stag Lane to die London Terminal at Croydon, says that this machine cruises comfortably at 110 miles an hour, and is quite nice to handle. Each of these new expresses seems to be a slight improvement on die last. Small folding tables are provided in front of each seat, so that the uni formed Daimler stewards can serve light refresh ments during die air journey. ••• Floating Dock The seaplane floating dock, which has been under construction at Sheerness Dockyard to the orders of the Air Ministry, has now been deliv ered as ready for service. The dock, which has an overall length of 143ft, has a lifting capacity of 200 tons and will carry two modern seaplanes. ••• Safety Fuel Tank Competition The Air Ministry Competition for safety fuel tanks, which was held at Farnborough, is now ended. The winner of die first prize of£l ,400 is die India-Rubber Gutta-Percha and Telegraph Works Co Ltd of Silvertown. Little has been disclosed in die Air Ministry report relating to the actual design of the tank - we would have liked detailed drawings so as to form an opinion of die tanks - except for the Air Ministry statement diat the competition "has pro duced a type of safety fuel tank which is available for immediate introduction on Service and civil aircraft, and which gives almost complete immunity from fire, eidier in a crash or in action widi enemy machines". ••• The Vickers Vulcan At the Weybridge works of Messrs Vickers Ltd, a new commercial aeroplane is nearing comple tion; in fact, by the time these notes appear, the first machine of the "Vulcan" class will probably have been put through its preliminary tests by Capt Cockerell. Although of considerable span - 49ft - there is only one engine; in fact, as regards the general design, the Vulcan is a relatively low- powered weight-carrying commercial machine, in which economy in manufacture and operation have been given precedence over performance. BUDGIE BLUES Budgie News' Whizzbang Editor obviously doesn't know his ASTOR from his elbow (23-29 April)... For die sake of other pointy- heads trying to get to grips widi this Ciwie stuff, Lockheed Martin is offer ing die Gulfstream V to Their British Airships for the Airborne Standoff Radar role, and it's Raytheon mat's offering the Global Express. OK? YUCKSPEAK Series of 1,000,000 "In-Flight Games Of Chance" = Gambling • Speaking of IFGOC, a well-known European airline which is paying for such equipment out of die profits it makes from its' use recently discovered' that the IFGOC profit it had made from one flight was, err... a loss of $618... UNCLE ROGER'S TOTAL AVIATION BOOKSHELF Vickers Aircraft, by Norman Barfield;Chalford Publish ing Co, St Mary's Mill, Chalford, Stroud, Glou cestershire GL6 8NX, UK. Another in Chalford's excellent little Archive Pho tographs Series, this one by ex-Vickers/BAC/BAe PR Barfield. Covers Vickers' aviation interests from Hiram Maxim's unsuccess ful flying machine of 1894 to BAC's part in die Anglo- French Concorde, includ ing die Vickers airships and the Canadian Vickers fly ing boats. Alightings: lovely period pix of machines which never get covered else where - like the Windsor four-engined bomber of 1943, with a main landing- gear leg on each engine nacelle, and die Type 432 F.7/41 prototype "metal Mosquito"; much more- comprehensive text dian in most of this series; Sinkings: no index, as ever; scant coverage of die virtu- Portuguese LTV A~l ally-a-Vickers BAC One- Eleven; TAB Rating [X] Top Shelf flown with Mr nto 1O have tempt but **L iIoon a'- ofillneS l minu*e becaus£ Independent, London, April 15 • "If you are flying from Copenhagen to Malaga you will fly 140 miles fur- dier diis year than last. Both ways. From Northern German to die Balearics is 50 miles further this year - and these islands are not floating in the sea..." Transavia president Peter Legro, describing modern European ATC/routing leficiencies to the lAviation Club of die UK. Spain has imposed a rdeparture tax, to pay for Inew airport security equip ment. (Spanish) Majorca has a new terminal - widi no room to put new securi ty equipment. Myasischev M-6 Bisons, 1989 48 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 30 April - 6 May 1997
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