French delegation with Tom Sopwith, Brooklands, 1932
Yuckspeak
Series of 1,000,000
"Your expected future contribution may not advance the strategic interests of the company" = Goodbye
It may be too late already (sorry about the absence, Nephews and Nieces), but British World Airways (+44 1702 331 914) is looking for a home for its last Viscount, perfectly serviceable but a bit short on airframe hours, only available because Southend Airport wants either its bit of apron back or a whole lot of money for having it parked there. How time flies: 50 years ago last month, the Viscount was the plane of the moment; now they can't even give them away...
Memo to Rekkof, the would-be reverser of Fokker fortunes: nobody makes loads of money out of building regional jets, so why don't you just try charging Hostile Skies Airlines 20 bucks for every time they claim that one of the DC-10s, 727s or 737s is a "Friendship" instead?
Nephew Graeme McLeod writes: "In the last paragraph on p8 (Budgie News, 22-28 July), reference is made to 'the world's six scheduled serious fatal airline accidents'. Please advise where I can obtain this schedule - I sincerely wish to avoid such scheduled accidents."
If Vickers sells Rolls-Royce to Volkswagen, and then Rolls-Royce sells Rolls-Royce to BMW, as a result of which BMW, which makes engines with Rolls-Royce, agrees to continue to sell engines to Rolls-Royce which has been sold to Volkswagen with the proviso that it doesn't have to sell engines to Rolls-Royce after 2003 because it will then be building a Rolls-Royce of its own, and Rolls-Royce agrees to lend BMW the money it got from selling Rolls-Royce to BMW in return for a seat on the board, does this now mean that Rolls-Royce has control over Rolls-Royce, or have we just got all the hyphens in the wrong place?
Source: Flight International
