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PflHB INTERNATIONAL ifc pi#» JP""Wfcfc. „ \ *• •_.' •# ** #* IHjj li Ji f • ifty years of IcDonnell Douglas ki [»•'*" U"!SlilJil How many do you recognize? Pilot's air view of 6 of the 390 worldwide Delivery Points for Chevron International Products. Chevron International is international. We publish an international Airport Directory that lists Chevron International products are available at more than major airports throughout the world at which Chevron prod* 50 major airports and 340 marine ports around the world. ucts are available. For your free copy, ask your local Chevron International representative. We have achieved our international status by supplying fuels and lubricants to the airlines of the world, ever since Lind­ As for the cities above, you probably recognize them as; bergh took off for Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. 1. London 2. Bangkok 3. Rome 4. Hong Kong 5. Melbourne 6. Beirut Our growth and continued service to airlines testifies to the exceptional quality of both our products and our service. Chevron Chevron International Oil Company SAN FRANCISCO • NEW YOHK • LONDON Thursday 23 July 1970 Editor Number 3202 Volume 98 Founded in 1909 J. M. Ramsden First aeronautical weekly in the world Assistant Editor Humphrey Wynn, BA Official organ of the Royal Aero Club Technical Editor Incorporating "The Aeroplane" Michael Wilson, BSc, CEng, FBIS. AFRAeS [FUl&ifir © IPC Business Press Ltd 1970 Assistant Editor (Air Transport) IMTERINJATIOMAL David Woolley ibpa Assistant Production Editor Barry Wheeler International Business Press Associates Editorial Staff John Bentfey Hugh Field Charles Gilson Peter Mlddleton Tony Smith Publishing Director Maurice A. Smith, DFC Tom Hamill (air photography) Advertisement Manager Photographic Librarian David Holmes Ann C. Tilbury Ce n'est pas la co-operation Our French contemporary Air et experience were indispensable. Haw­ aircraft field in cases where coUa­ Cosmos says that the Three-Eleven ker Siddeley is against the BAC boration is government-sponsored." is a test of Mr Heath's goodwill Three-Eleven too; but subcontracting Excepting Concorde as advanced towards Europe. "Inescapable as it to Europe, though profitable business technology, he added that manufac­ is that Rolls-Royce occupy, in the for a particular company, is not the turers selected and financed by engine area, a very strong world best long-term formula for the governments had no incentive to be position, then we must recognise British aircraft industry as a whole. competitive, "and if the manufac­ that it is the French aerospace This industry has always accepted turers are not competitive they will industry that has become die Euro­ that, in collaboration, it must be not get the market nor will they pean pivot so far as airframes, prepared to give more than it gets deserve to get it." helicopters, various missiles and in the short term. But the systematic space research, not to mention many The Three-Eleven is no more of transfer of British technology and an affront to Europe than is categories of equipment, are con­ experience to Europe is reaching cerned ... To launch the BAC Dassault's Mercure, aimed at the almost suicidal proportions. As the Three-Eleven project would be same market, or the Mirage G.8, Electronics Engineering Association equivalent to Great Britain mis­ which competes with MRCA, or reading these facts . .." has said, "the terms imposed [on Snecma's M53, which challenges Jaguar] were such that an enormous Rolls-Royce. This is the true voice of the French amount of knowhow and develop­ The pivot of European experience aircraft industry. While the implied ment experience were given to in commercial transport aircraft is proposition may be acceptable to France without any corresponding BAC; this is accepted in the US Rolls-Royce, and to some of the benefit." According to Elliott Flight airline market, and France should "Major Thompsons" in the Ministry Automation, the British Government not misread this fact. of Technology, it must be totally endeavours to persuade British com­ rejected by Mr Heath and his panies "to hand over the knowhow ministers. The British aircraft indus­ to the joint-venture paetners." IN THIS ISSUE try is too priceless a national asset It is fair to say that French to be traded away for membership chauvinism has been given comfort World News 104 of the Common Market or for by the British Government, whose Parliament 106 anything else. classic appeasement was perhaps Air Transport 107 Mr Rippon will no doubt hear the famous no-more-major-aircraft Light Commercial 114 similarly from his French colleagues. policy—still believed in France to be Private Flying 115 He may remind them that in 1962 valid. As the SBAC has said, "to Concorde, with its 95 per cent British state in advance that British industry Marfa teach-in 118 aerodynamics and 100 per cent will undertake no major project Industry International 121 British power, was intended to be alone . places the industry in a Buoyant in survival 122 proof of Britain's goodwill towards hopeless negotiating position." Fifty years of McDonnell Douglas 123 Europe, and that it was rewarded The Three-Eleven will, of course, by General de Gaulle's veto of 1963. be a competitor for the A-300B, and Flight recorders 134 Mr Rippon might also recall the it is a pity that Europe should divide Letters 138 A-300B conditions which Britain its share of the Caravelle/One-Eleven/ Spaceflight 139a laid down in public (many times) DC-9/Boeing 737 replacement mar­ Defence 141 before withdrawing: firm orders for ket. But this is a 2,000-aircraft 75; fixed-price contract; and Rolls- Straight and Level 144 business, and it is almost certainly Royce engines exclusively. These big enough to sustain three or four conditions were not fulfilled. Hawker Front cover: in the assembly hangar at Long Siddeley maintained a major share professional suppliers over the next Beach two McDonnell Douglas DC-10s take 20 years. shape. The fin is added after the aircraft has in the project, notably the wing, but been towed across the airfield to the new "final Mr Geoffrey Knight, chairman of functions and customer building." Although the British company was not given not distinguishable in this photograph, many of this work as a favour: its technical BAC's commercial aircraft division, those working on the aircraft are women. has said: "There are serious dis­ "Flight's" anniversary record of MD's jubilee capacity and commercial airline begins on page 123. Roll-out of the first DC-10 advantages in the commercial is due today FLIGHT International, 23 July 1970 obliquely worded and of little value. Israel's Offensive Blunted? It has yet to be established whether there is a link between the Conway With the destruction of a Phantom at successes against Israeli aircraft with failure on Foxtrot November and that low altitude over the Suez Canal last SA.3 missiles, which have a low-level which occurred on BOAC 707-465 Saturday, July 19, the Israeli Air Force capability and some of which have been G-ARWE on April 8, 1968. In the for­ has already lost either four or six of sited (Flight, June 25) so as to protect mer case a fatigue failure of the fifth- these aircraft during this month (reports the SA.2 positions along the west bank of stage low-pressure compressor wheel of of the actual total vary). The aircraft the Suez Canal. The SA.3 systems are No 2 engine initiated a fire in which five shot down last Saturday was in the so- operationally effective between 300ft and people subsequently died. Following the called "red zone" missile area 15 miles 3,000ft, 91m and 915m, and it looks as Whiskey Echo accident three alternative west of the canal. July 19 was the 58th though they are successfully impeding courses of action were formulated by consecutive day on which [AF aircraft the Israeli Air Force in its hitherto Rolls-Royce, the ARB and airline opera­ had operated along the Suez Canal, but unmolested penetrations of Egyptian tors. They were in order of preference: it was the first time for ten days that the airspace as far west as the Cairo area. to fit a strengthened disc; to fit zero-life Israelis had struck against the zone. After last Saturday's success against a old-pattern discs or to tighten inspection tolerances and replace old discs which In announcing that a Phantom had Phantom an Egyptian military spokes­ man commented that "the enemy used met the new high tolerance requirement. been destroyed, the Egyptians said that The recommendations were purely ad­ it was flying at low level, but did not a new method of raiding our positions, but our air defence systems engaged the visory and it has been up to the airlines specify whether a missile or anti-aircraft to decide what action to take. The TBO gunfire had shot it down. low-flying Phantoms and scored a direct hit against one of them". and flight-cycle life of the component To date, Egypt has not claimed any were not changed. At the time of the Foxtrot November incident seven engines in BOAC service had not come under any of the above categories, but BOAC Conway Failure already been observed by those on all now meet one of these standards. On June 22, Flight learned last week, board. Those in Foxtrot November, however, a BOAC Boeing 707-436, G-APFN, BOAC last week stressed, however, did meet the advisory requirements. suffered an eighth-stage h-p compressor that indication of serious engine failure Last Monday, July 20, the ARB disc failure of No 1 engine at 400ft soon in the cockpit was followed by the working group held a discussion with after take-off from Heathrow at 2133 correct drill, which includes cutting off Rolls-Royce and BOAC at which recom­ GMT.

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