Keep your mind on the job I’m not saying where this happened; though it’s a long time ago, there might be people still around who’d put two and two together. But after seeing the story on wire strikes in the last issue, I thought readers might be interested in a variation on the same theme.

There have been numerous attempts to develop a system to save lives in airliner cabin fires. Only now has a truly practical system been developed, using spray mist to suppress the killer fire and resulting toxic smoke. Darchem Engineering in Britain has now demonstrated its new water spray fire suppression system for civil aircraft cabins.

Jet Jubilee Challenge: The Son of Concorde The sons and grandsons ofthe engineers who delivered the jet age 50 years ago are working now on a project just as challenging – the power plants for son of Concorde, the high speed commercial transport (HSCT). However, while the Whittles and the Ohains had the air marshals

10 Years Ago 10 Years Ago Doubts have been expressed that the USAF will go ahead with the re-engining of its 615 strong KC-135 fleet with the CFM56 turbofan despite the plan to re-engine half of the fleet during 1983/87 and the current $US148m contract for conversion and testing to be completed by 1983. General