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More thorough inspections needed IagreewithCaptPeterTomkinson (Flight International, 14 - 20 November) - one single factor does not cause an accident. However, in most accidents, as in the Concorde crash, remove one factor and it would be unlikely that the crash would have taken place. If Concorde hadnotrun over the metal strip it is unlikely that its tyres would have torn themselves apart with such devastating results. There are a number of occasions on which this could have been prevented: • during maintenance - more care in securing all fittings; • a thorough inspection after each flight to make sure that nothing has worked loose due to vibration; • runway inspections. My home base is inspected before any large jet lands or takes off. This, of course, is impractical at busy airports like Paris Charles de Gaulle or London Heathrow, but it is not impractical to monitor them by video. I hope this is taken seriously because I believe that if the metal strip had been found before Concorde's take-off this accident could have been avoided. CAPT RON HAMILTON Cranbrook, Australia Commercialism in space travel is good What a negative vision of human spaceflight in your Comment "Long road" (Flight International, 7-13 November, P3). I think the breakthrough will come if the ISS/shuttle were turned over to commercial users right now. This will in turn boost the X-Prize people, add external tanks reused in orbit and we should have the infrastructure to go further afield ie return to the moon by 2 010 - or Mars. EPHILPOTT Neston, South Witral, UK LETTERS WHAT'S ON The opinions on this page do not necessarily represent those of the editor. Flight International cannot undertake to publish letters without name and address and reserves the right to select or edit letters. Address: The Editor, Flight International, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, UK. E-mail:fligbt.international@rbi.co.uk 39th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibition 8-11 January Reno, Nevada, USA Contact American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Tel+1(703)264 7500 Fax +1(703)264 7551 3rd Annual European Airfinance Conference 18-19JanuaryDul)lin, Ireland Contact Yvonne Hynes, F.uromoney Seminars Tel+44 (0)20 7779 8999 (USA) 1800437 9997 Email hodine@euromoney.com Flight International's "Beneath the skin " exhibition is on at La Musee de Pair et I'espace, Aeroport de Paris, Le Bourget BP113, 93352 Le Bourget, Cdx, France. For further information contact: Tel+44 (20) 8205 2266 Fax+44 (20) 8205 7617 Quiz answers PICTURES 1 point each except where noted 1) Boeing C-17 Globemaster III; 2) Fokker F28; 3) Glenn L Martin Torpedo Plane; 4) English Electric Lightning; 5) Hawker Siddelely Trident; 6) Junkers Ju 352; 7) de Havilland Comet 1; 8) Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and Pratt & Whitney R-4360; 9) Douglas DC- 4, BAe Nimrod, Ilyushin IL-76, Transall C-160, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar tanker (1 point per aircraft); 10) Sikorsky S-42 (2 points); 11) Vickers Super VC10; 12) Messerschmitt Me-262; 13) Vickers Vanguard; 14) Boeing 80A (1 point) bonus point for Mount Ranier; 15) Boeing 707-437 (2 pohits) bonus point for Rolls- Royce Conway; 16) Sikorsky 6C (2 points, only one for Sikorsky); 17) Vickers VC-10, Rolls-Royce RB211 testbed and Cohways (/ point for aircraft, 1 for RB211); 18) Lockheed C-130 Hercules 19) Gotha GV (2 points); 20) Westland PV3, Everest Expedition (/ point for each). NEWS 1) American Airlines; 2) Hurel- Dubois and Labinal; 3) Emirates, Air France and International Lease Finance; 4) Ibis Aerospace, July; 5) Aermacchi 346, Honeywell F124; 6) European Aerospace Defence and Space (EADS). Aerospatiale, CASA, Daimler-Chrysler, Matra; 7) United Technologies and Honeywell, the latter is being acquired by General Electric; 8) a) Rockwell b) Clayton Dubeiller & Rice c) Air New Zealand; 9) H-2 was cancelled. Focus on H-2 A; 10) -300 has underwing engine instal lation and -200 has usual Antonov overwing mounted engines HISTORY 1) A man carrying kite called Cygnet 1 flown in Nova Scotia, Canada; 2) United Air Lines, May 1930; 3) Gyroplane or Breguet- Dorand 314; 4) 1923, Dobrolet 5) Bell XP-59A, General Electric; 6) Sud-Est SE 210 Caravelle, first short haul jet airliner; 7) EMB-121 Xingu; 8) Amphibian with three P& WC PT6A engines; 9) Learjet 60andCitationJet; 10)Cessna 1-72 AIRTRANSPORT 1) Air France, Delta, Korean Air, Aeromexico. SkyTeam; 2) Bomb ardier CRJ900, Brit Air, Tyrolean Airways and Air Nostrum; 3) Hapag-Lloyd; 4) Airbus A3XX, Rolls-Royce Trent 900 and 25(10 plus 15 options); 5) C; 6)Japan Air Lines (78), Air France (97), Comair (100); 7) Pratt & Whitney PW4098,98,0001b thrust, Boeing 777-300; 8) a) Alaska Airlines, April 2001, b) Singapore Airlines, March 2006; 9) Boeing 717,2cm; 10) Airbus A330 DEFENCE 1) Istres, Marseilles; 2) Luxembourg; 3) CT-156 Harvard II; 4) Sikorsky S-80E (CH-53E); 5) GE CF6-80C2L1F, 50,0001b (derated from 60,0001b); 6) T-50 two-seat trainer, A-50 single-seat attack; 7) BoeingX-32, Lockheed Martin X-35; 8) China and Pakistan; 9) Future strategic tankeraircraft, combined air oper ations centre, NATO Flying Training in Canada, Aiborne Common Sensor, Airborne Based Laser.; 10) X-31 GENERAL AVIATION 1) Premier 1, Hawker Horizon, Hawker 450; 2) Falcon 200EX, Pratt & Whitney PW308C; 3) Gulfstream Aerospace, GV-SP; 4) New Piper Malibu Meridian; 5) Citation VII; 6) Flight Options, Chauffair; 7) Cessna, CJls and Bravos, BAE Systems, Jetstream 32EPs.; 8) Qatar Airways, Airbus A319CJ; 9) Liberty Aircraft XL-2 (piston aircraft) and VisionAire Vantage (jet); 10) Indigo.com and FlightServ.com team (1 point), FlightTime.com, SkyJet.com PROPULSION 1) Honeywell AS900 on BAE Systems Avro RJX; 2) CFM56- 3C1, 737-300, CFM56-5B1, A321, CFM56-5C2, A340, CFM56-7B, 737-700; 3) GE90- 115B, 115,0001b thrust; 4) Trent 500, A340-600; 5) GE Fl 10-132; 6) P&WC PW150A on Dash 8- Q400;7)RTM322,andGET700; 8) Snecma M88; 9) Junkers Jumo 004, Arado Ar 234B, BMW 801, Focke-Wulf Fw-190, Bristol Centaurus, Hawker Sea Fury, WrightR-3350,B-29; 10) Spitfire MklV SPACE 1) Boeing 2) Minotaur 3) Fregat 4) Zvezda (extra point for correct spelling!) 5) Eros 6) Compton 7) Eurockot 8) Dinnis Tito 9) Athena 10) Odyssey j Total possible points: 176 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 19 December 2000 - 1 January 2001 77
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