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Letters Yes, the tunnels are labour inten sive, having suffered from a lack of investment over many years, but in terms of quality of results they match the very best in the world. While QinetiQ cannot be blamed for inheriting high site overheads, attempts by local management to find new business and to make the facilities more viable have been sys tematically vetoed by higher authority. So insistent is this "get rid" mentality that the 5m tunnel at Farnborough was mothballed precipitantly in 1999, only to reopen under pressure from an influential customer, since when it has enjoyed a continuing pro gramme of work. The problem cre ated in manning it, after disposal of key support staff, is another issue. While the Ministry of Defence's research budget is so tight that it cannot afford to identify these tun nels as strategic facilities, surely a nation which purports to be at the forefront of technical innovation cannot afford to lose these assets. Given that the 2.5m has been nominated as the reserve tunnel for extensive Joint Strike Fighter work, and bearing in mind that the prime (US) tunnel is unserviceable, it is not surprising that our competitors can only wonder at the ruthless efficiency of the UK's national self- destruct mechanism. Name and address withheld Protection not consolidation Shouldn't American Airlines flight AA587 have been much higher than the Japan Airlines Boeing 747 and its wake (Flight International, 27 November - 3 December)? Granted that flight AA587 flew a shorter path, still, a twin-engined aircraft leaving on a shorter flight to Santo Domingo should climb much faster than a four-engined aircraft on a long flight to Tokyo. Was flight AA587 observing some noise abatement procedure, was the crew being kind to its engines, or was it flying fast rather than climbing fast? The last possibility got me think ing about wake encounters. If an encounter is so brief that it leaves the aircraft with changed velocity but not position - for example, with a rate of roll but no bank angle - the resulting velocity is pro portional to the aircraft's airspeed. To be kind to the aircraft, go slow. But the passive aerodynamic damping of the said velocity is inversely proportional to airspeed, and the control power available - for a given control deflection - to enable the pilot to stop the roll, is inversely proportional to the square of the airspeed. So to reduce the severity of a wake-induced upset, go fast. The A300-600's fin deflection is supposed to be limited at the speed which it was going. Was the limiter working? At airports with adequately spaced, parallel runways, parallel runways paired take-offs and paired landings would double capacity. Charles McCutchen Bethesda, USA Irresponsible journalism? Recently two UK journalists boarded a British Airways shuttle flight between Heathrow and Manchester and concealed three knives disguised as a comb, pen and credit card. Gloating later on national television, they stressed how easy it is to smuggle forbidden items on aircraft and probably sold more copies of their newspaper in the process. What these irresponsible jour nalists achieved was to frighten the public again and no doubt cause BA more losses in revenue, which may lead to further job cuts. Everybody knows in this industry that it is impossible to guarantee these items will not go on board. The way to prevent terrorism is to fight fire with fire and get to the root of it through better intelli gence and action. Perhaps the terrorists or these journalists will turn their attention to the railways, where of course there is no security. I hope that BA and BAA prose cute these irresponsible journalists, but no doubt this will not happen as the powers of the press are immense and can break a large company with bad publicity. It is interesting to note that they did not choose an airline such as Easyjet to prove their point. Is there a conspiracy against BA? Andrew Lee Woking, UK DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT SALES Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS. Fax +44 (20) 8652 8981 Group Advertisement Director Richard Thiele richard.thiele@rbi.co.uk NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA Vice-president, North & South America Rob Hancock +1 (703) 836 7444 Fax +1 (703) 836 7446 robert.hancock@rbi.co.uk Vice-president US Sales John Tidy +1(949)7561057 Fax +1 (949)756 2514 jtidy9ix.netcom.com Reed Business Information. 3700 Campus Drive, Suite 203,Newport Beach, CA 92660. USA. 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