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SJSsjJOm a LEVEL The Aviator's Ten Commandments Your Uncle thought it might be an appropriate time of the year to remind his flock of the more important rules and regs of our business. Thanks to timely reminders from nephews Murphy and Wulf, here they are: I. Thou shalt abstain from ye intersection take-off for, verily, ye runway behind thee, as ye altitude above thee, cometh not to thine aid when thou needest them. II. Thou shalt not linger on active runways lest thou becomest like unto potted meat. III. Ignorest thou not thy checklists for many are ye switches, handles, gauges and other demons waiting to take cruel vengeance upon thee. IV. Thou shall cast thine eyes to thy right and also to thy left as thou passes through ye firmament lest thy fellow pilots bring flowers to thy spouse, and comfort her in other wise. V. Thou shalt not buzz, for ye fury of ye authorities shall be called down upon thy head. VI. Thou shalt be mindful of thy fuel lest there be naught in thy tank to sus- Answers on a postcard please... At the Plaza Poor Reception would you prefer: Q Hors D'Oeuvres& two drink tickets D Open Bar Awards Banquet Comments: Were you supplied with sufficient and timely information regarding registering for the Symposium? Are you: Q Military • Gov't • Private Industry Where did you travel from to attend this symposium SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT Was that a poor pool reception? tain thee upon ye air and thy days be made short. VII. Trust not thine eyes to lead thee through ye cloud lest celestial beings await you therein. VHI. Thou shalt not tres pass into thunderstorms lest ye tempest rend ye wings from thy chariot and cast thee naked into ye fir mament. IX. Put not thy trust in weather prophets, forwhen ye truth is not in, then they shall not accompany thee among thy ancestors. X. Thou shalt confirm thine airspeed often on finals lest ye earth rise up and smite thee. A VTO CAR - Car for transporting planes in Germany [FILDiKnr INTERNATIONAL 25YEARSAGO Extracts from Flight International, 3 January, 1916 Concorde fights to land in US On Monday, January 5, the US Department of Transportation will hold a one day hearing, at which the Secretary for Transportation Mr William T Coleman will hear arguments for and against US landing rights for Concorde. Thirty days later Coleman will decide whether the adverse impact of small-scale Concorde operations is enough to justify the unprecedented step of banning the airlines' equipment under domestic rules. In the Soviet Union, meanwhile, current Tupolev Tu-144 services are freight only and domestic pas senger services will not begin until the second half of this year, it was confirmed in Moscow late last month. Soviet deputy aviation minister, Nikolai P Bykov, said there were still "some unresolved questions" sur rounding supersonic commercial operations, and the freight operations seem to be serving the same pur pose as last summer's Concorde endurance trials. There is still no indication that the date for Tu-144 introduction on international services is fixed. The 1,900nm Moscow-Alma Ata route is the only firm application mentioned so far, and doubts persist among western observers that the Soviet SST has adequate intercontinental range at supersonic speed. This is likely to be the largest stumbling block in the way of a planned Europe-Tokyo supersonic service. ••• RB.211-524 certificated Rolls-Royce's 50,0001b thrust RB.211-524 has received its British certificate of airworthiness and the first production engine has been com pleted and sent for bench-testing. Observing that the -524 is the most powerful aero engine ever developed in Europe, the manufacturer says that production engines will be delivered to Lockheed and Boeing during 1976 - for Saudia's long-range TriStars and British Airways' Boeing 747-236Bs respectively. Development was completed "com fortably within the budget agreed 2.5 years ago." Rolls-Royce points out that the -524 is also suit able for a new version of the Douglas DC-10-30 and for the Airbus A300B10. The RB.211 is the largest export earner in British aviation history; most of the £350 million earned so far on the 520 engines delivered comes from exports. Further development to a thrust of 53,0001b is planned. 72 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 2 - 8 January 2001
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