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STRAIGHT A LEVEL 75 YEARS AGO ••• Extracts from Flight, August 31,1922 In the Popular Press Alarming and sensational accounts of a mishap to one of the Messageries Aerrienne's Goliaths appeared in die daily newspapers during the week. All the usual sensational "dives to earth" and "explosions" were featured, together with the survivors' experiences. It is only to be expected that this sort of thing will hap pen when the chief passenger traffic consists of tourists who are constantly on the look-out for some thing when they can achieve notoriety, and make out that they have had a marvellous escape. ••• In the Frame The control-tower at the London Terminal is now in full working order... As was to be expect ed, the new glass roof and sides of the tower have earned it the name of "The Cucumber Frame". ••• Of Birds and Fish Quite interesting data ought to result as a natural sequence to die appointment of British Instructional Films to be official cinematographers to the Royal Zoological Society. The idea is to test a dieory put forward by the British Museum of Natural I Iistory with regard to the similarity between the flight of birds and the swimming offish. It is claimed, in tact, that both birds and fish resemble the turtle when in motion, and arrangements have been made to take an extensive range of pictures of turtles at the zoo. ••• Soaring for Longer At the Rhon Gliding Competition, the German pilot Herr Hentzen has beaten his own record of last week by flying for 3 hrs. 10 mins. ••• The Decisive Arm Mr Holt Thomas has a happy knack of putting his fin ger upon the vitally weak point of any anti-aeronauti cal argument. In the case of the of a letter to The I ivies by Sir Reginald Bacon, he states: "Sir Reginald recalls to the minds of non-technical readers the axiom that airplanes cannot supersede sea transport. Perfectly true, but a sufficient aerial attack can prevent this being of interest by, as the Admiral himself states, 'poisoning whole towns and districts'. It is no use bringing food to us by sea when we are dead." An arid island. Prevailing wind E'ry which can be strong presenting crossword difficulties" / Thunderstorm activity in Winter. J Burlington Widebody: "So what's the main feature of your new image, then?" Max Loadfacton "Air-do." Widebody: "I meant the airline, not the chairman's personal grooming!" Loadfactor: "So did I..." YUCKSPEAK Seriesof1,000,000 "Technology maturation" = modern brewing • Sergei Miklieyev, gener al designer of Kamov, has just been awarded the gold "Hero of the Russian Federation" medal, which is usu ally given for extreme bravery, heroism, and risk to the recip ient's life. Is design- * ing now so dan- 1 gerous, or has Mik- heyev offered to try out the ejection-seat on the Ka-50, and its explosive bolts to shed the blades...? Sir Nigel Birdseed: "What's this I hear about you allowing a five-year- old to handle the controls on your Alegajet?" Capt Speaking: "It's your guys who are rostering the first officers, not me." kid Brief, Fnateveiitiira, 25 April 1997 Airbus A319 minding its own business Reginald S. Potter Memorial Award .-*~*~— .-•*JJaA^«-. ep July 1991 around a record. Wonder how many takers there would have been for a Wright iFlyer in 1953... Not quite the same in produc- on terms, but (somebody's devis ed a new wing for the equally 1947- vintage de Hav- illand Canada DHC-2 Beaver, so some of them could still be in 100 years, too... • The Beech Bonanza has been in production for 50 years, with and without the vee-tail, and they've made over 17,000 of them. Quite Airbus A 319, Moscow Air Show, Zbukovski, minding somebody else s business. 60 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 30 July - 5 August 1997
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