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roger.bacon@flightinternational.com Strain Uncle Roger's basic flying rules (with help from Nephew Bill Reavis) 1. Try to stay in the middle of the air. 2. Do not go near the edges of it. 3. The edges of the air can be recognised by the appearance of ground, build ings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there. What aviation needs is more people who will stand around in the freezing cold to admire a wing... Royal Aeronautical Society garden party, White Waltham, June 1952. Which two future captains of industry are doing the freezing? Answers on a postcard please... Aviation thought for the week It only takes two things to fly: airspeed and money. Transformers Gen Strike: "The B-52 is what we call a 'transformation weapon'." Budgie News: "What do you mean, General?" Strike: "We had a special forces operative on horseback being chased by bad guys on horseback. So our man used his cellphone to call up a B-52 which then dropped a JDAM on the bad guys - that's transformation." Budgie: "And what happened to the bad guys?" Strike: "They were transformed as well." Yuckspeak (series of 1,000,000) Based on the fuzzy clustering and neuro-fuzzy learning algorithms, we pro posed a new technique for fuzzy rule generation. In this approach, before learning fuzzy rules we extract typical data by using the fuzzy c-means cluster ing algorithm. By these typical data, fuzzy rules can be tuned by using the neuro-fuzzy learning algorithm. Therefore, the learning time can probably be reduced and the fuzzy rules generated by the proposed approach are reason able and suitable for the identified system model = it's all a bit vague really. ...ahhhh...de Havilland Seattle's Museum of Flight is seeking support for a special weekend event planned for 9 and 10 March to highlight its restoration of a de Havilland Comet Mk 4C. Guests of honour include John Cunningham, former Comet chief test pilot and Peter Duffy, test pilot and author of Comets and Concordes...And Those I Flew Before. The Comet, the only example of its type in North America, is being restored to its original 1959 Mexicana Airlines delivery colours by a team led by Robert Hood. For further information call Elissa Lines at +1 206 764 5733, or e-mail elines@museumofflight.org. Alternatively, check out the project web site at: www.dhcomet.org. Going GAPANese The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (GAPAN) is looking for nominations for its trophies and awards recognising significant achievements or service in avia tion. Call GAPAN for details on +44 207 404 4032 (or 0207 404 4032 in the UK). fH CJHT AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 50 YEARS AGO FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 15.2.1952 B.O.A.C Earns Nation's Gratitude Last week there took place an airline flight which was not only of profound personal significance to every loyal citizen throughout the British Common wealth, but which will also live in the history of the Nation. We refer, of course, to the journey of the B.O.A.C. Argonaut Atalanta which brought Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II so speedily and safely back to this country when the sudden death of her father the King called for her immediate accession to the throne. The journey itself - a model of precision flying and a striking example of a first-class airline at work - constituted a magnificent demonstration of the efficiency of B.O A.C.'s ground organization as well as of the unsurpassed skill of its flying crews. The aircraft was at Mombasa when the King died, yet within a few hours it had flown to Entebbe and was airborne for London with the Queen and her consort on board. The service, which involved immense responsibility for the Corporation, was laid on in an hour or two in all its complex aspects of flight-planning, refuelling, arrangements, air port clearance, weather forecasting and crew changes - matters which called for vital decisions to be made instantaneously and cabled to many different stations in a matter of minutes. Polar Landing Attempt Two aircraft, of unstated type, left the U.S.N air sta tion at Patuxent River, Maryland, last Sunday, bound for the John Hopkins University Arctic Laboratory at Point barrow, Alaska. Another was due to follow during the week. With 34 persons on board - including one woman - the three are to fly on to the North Pole, where it is hoped to make the first polar landing. Among research objectives of the flight are the measurement of depth and salin ity of the water under the ice, while it is also hoped to find whether homing pigeons can operate under polar conditions; a number of these birds are already in Alaska for acclimatization. tt «as * r From Sa*p,i5oM0- Errr, Boeing's B-59 was the unbuilt competitor to the 1960s-era B-58 Hustler www.flightinternational.com FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 12-18 FEBRUARY 2002 51
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