Flight International – 11 June 2019

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Memories of multinational team

I am really enjoying your Airbus At 50 special supplement

(Flight International, 28 May-3 June).

How time flies. The company has done well, and continues to

do so. As a freelance writer and director of industrial documen-

taries and training films, I am proud and grateful to have been

employed by Airbus from time to time during its first 25 years.

Our chief task was to explain to the media and the public the

benefits of the new technologies that Airbus was pioneering.

My main memory was the thrill of working with such a

harmonious, multinational team. Without this European vision,

Airbus and many other successful collaborations would never

have developed.

Are we in Britain about to lose the benefits of all this?

David Stevens

Woking, Surrey, UK

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Ripple of truth

in Trump remark

its “huge differentiators” – so

why is there no photo of the said

rear door open?

Paul Burch

Farnham, Surrey, UK

Comfort levels

Airbus chief commercial officer

Christian Scherer says the A350

could “comfortably” go to

10-abreast for long-haul flights,

(Flight International, 28 May-3

June). I hope those passengers

who find themselves in these

seats will feel as comfortable.

Paul Baker

via email

US President Donald Trump
wasn’t completely off the planet
with his 15 April remark on
Twitter about using water bomb-
ers to tackle the fire engulfing
Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

The Viking Air CL-415 water

bomber has a kind of ripple

mode of dumping, specifically

for fighting building fires with-

out flattening them.

Richard Kean

Rotorua, New Zealand

A closed door

I enjoyed the Pilatus PC-24 flight

test report “True all-rounder”

(Flight International, 14-20 May).

You cite the superlight jet’s

“sizeable cargo door” as one of

There’s bags of room in a PC-24

Pilatus Aircraft

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