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May 13, 2006 at 8:55 am in reply to: Proof Reading #1288778

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JDK and Lee Howard.
I was sounding off a bit! Looking at the rest of the Magazine I see that David Willis had written several articles and I am not attacking him as an individual. He has put in a lot of work, for which if he honestly calculates his overall hourly return for his efforts he will probably find himself getting a miserly rate. One cannot but wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the lousy financial return traditionally involved in aviation feature writing ( and authoring in general). I visited “Fly Past”‘s offices in the early days on invitation and the lean and mean approach was an eye opener compared to others, some of which have now been taken over by Key Press. That is the way in business and I realise that the publishing team will always be working very hard to meet the deadline treadmill.
Nevertheless, editors do have a responsibility to fulfil and it is evident that all of Mr. Willis’s articles have just not been scanned properly for this issue- spellchecker howlers abound, as well as elementary grammatical errors in addition to the repeated basic factual error that I highlighted. I know from experience that writing under time pressure almost inevitably generates silly “glitches” by authors, however it is the duty of sub-editors to root these out.
By coincidence a subscription renewal slip arrived with this issue. I’m thinking about it.

May 12, 2006 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Balliol Airbrakes #1289206

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Thanks very much Brian. I have that article: unfortunately there’s no more in it ref. “Dive brakes”. I do suspect, certainly on the piston Balliols at least, that “air brakes” refers to “dive brakes”. The terms have been mixed up a bit over time but I cannot really see the need for “air brakes ” on a piston propeller aircraft.

May 12, 2006 at 7:25 pm in reply to: What's in a name? #1289231

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Ollie,# 26 Do something for yourself!!!

May 12, 2006 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Balliol Airbrakes #1289421

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Just check -are they airbrakes or Dive brakes? 🙂

May 12, 2006 at 1:25 pm in reply to: What's in a name? #1289854

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The original biplane Firefly was a single seat fighter and a contemporary of the 111F.

May 12, 2006 at 11:58 am in reply to: What's in a name? #1290071

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I think rlangham is closer.

May 12, 2006 at 9:02 am in reply to: New roundel for Belgian armed forces #2570566

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Have you noticed that tiny insignificant countries often have the most pompous regalia?

May 11, 2006 at 6:12 pm in reply to: Canberra retirement #1290760

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Pogno. As I recall it was about 1984. The subject was stress corrosion. Stories of undercarriage items on stores racks suddenly and violently splitting open. All down to not being properly stress relieved etc. Not a new story for engineers!
I taped it and a “mate” then “borrowed” it and promptly sent it to his buddies in New Zealand. A lesson learned.

May 11, 2006 at 5:43 pm in reply to: Hurel Dubois Airliner #1290890

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Hi Ozplane, Yes, there was a link across from the Miles Aerovan to the Short Skyvan, involving the HD wing. Fred Miles approached Shorts in 1958 regarding the HDM 106 Caravan ( A development of the HDM105 of which I posted a piccie) and Shorts purchased the design. Shorts carried on with Frank Robertson as Chief Designer (ex-Miles ) to evolve the design into the Skyvan. Miles of course ,went to be part of Beagle.
A company which I once worked for built the sponsons for the 330/360 – but thats another story. 🙂

May 11, 2006 at 10:52 am in reply to: Media Ignorance? #2571183

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SOC#20.
I think that puts the cap on it quite nicely – many thanks for your efforts, its interesting what is now surfacing.
I quote from another source I have spoken to on this subject recently :

the Aerofax book by Jim Goodall and Jay Miller, but not much there:
…the RB-12…4 x 400lbs nuclear free-fall bombs in the Lockheed proposal…same fuel load as the A-12 recon version for CIA

Paul Crickmore’s latest book has more but different info (pages 68-70)…the B-12…four AGM-69 SRAM nuclear missiles, or 12 guided bombs…USAF review was June 1962…
He has a map showing a flight path heading east over east Germany to Moscow then looping back over the Baltic, covering 2200 naut miles by the time it reaches Denmark, but no indication of launch/recovery base.
Did the”A ” in the CIA progenitors actually refer to “Archangel”.? Indeed did Lockheed refer to the U-2 internally as the “Angel” – or is this all folk lore?

yes and yes. Archangel is in Kelly Johnson’s diaries, the Angel is in various accounts ….
P.S. reading that document could the two unspecified modded aircraft be the D-21 carriers ?

May 10, 2006 at 8:05 pm in reply to: Cold war prototypes that didn't make it #2571743

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Pesho. “Well it was developed in 1952 and weighted around 180 tons.4 engines with 5 man crew.As we know Javelin flew in 1951.
Btw i hate this “ski” names….”

Well, what was it called? that’s why I “Putin” the comment 🙂

May 10, 2006 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Hurel Dubois Airliner #1292466

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Miles did put a high aspect ratio wing on an aerovan.

May 10, 2006 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Cold war prototypes that didn't make it #2571831

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Model Giant Javelinski?

May 10, 2006 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Heads up tonight, Pearl Harbor BBC1 8:00 #1292485

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Both…

or instead of…..?

May 10, 2006 at 1:54 pm in reply to: General Discussion #320760

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Now doesn’t that just figure? 🙂
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