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By TOM CULLEN
BRISTOL, England-
(NEA)—Indignation aroused
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Early this summer, with
the two planes built so far
falling disastrously short of
expectations, the Concorde
project sputtered. Only 74
options had been taken out
for orders on the 130-passen-
ger plane, which was de-
signed to fly at two times the
speed of sound.
ELY-OVER: The Concorde
zooms over London's Tra-
falgar Square statue of
Lord Nelson.
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the booms will damage their
cucumber frames, curdle
their cows’ milk or disturb
their hens' egg-laying, peo-
ple here are calling the se-
ries of test flights, the first
over populated areas, “Op-
eration Cucumber Frame.”
After the plane's first
flight, the National Farmers
Union contended the boom
had cracked roofs and win-
dows, sent chickens and
cows into hysteria and
caused headaches in hu-
mans. But the British Minis-
try of Technology said its
monitoring equipment
showed the most delicate
structures only faintly shud-
dered when the boom hit.
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The British and French
governments, fa c i n g the
prospect of sinking $1.75 bil-
lion into a flying version of
the Edsel, were reportedly
about to shelve the project.
Then a joint United States
congressional committee
headed by Sen. William
Proxmire, D-Wis., issued a
report that said the Con-
corde would be a commer-
cial flop.
Proxmire’s committee was
trying to convince the Nixon
administration to halt devel-
opment of a U.S. supersonic
transport, whose supporters
say the Concorde could, if
unchallenged by an Ameri-
can plane, damage U.S.
dominance of the world avia-
tion market.
Proxmire has yet to con-
vince the Nixon administra-
tion, but he did awaken the
Concorde's European devel-
opers. They consider Ameri-
can criticism impertinent, if
not outright insulting.
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Proxmire Criticism,
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crashed into another. It’s one of
those things of fate that hap-
pened, destiny or something,
but all of us got away with it.
Everyone came back except
Baron von Richthofen.
“I broke off because there
were so many after me and
some of the other Camels. I was
a couple of thousand feet above
Brown and May. I noticed that
Brown came in to make a pass
at the red triplane.
"When Richthofen’s plane
passed over the 53rd Battery it
made, more or less, a flat turn,
wobbled a bit, then glided to the
ground. From all reports, it’s a
good possibility that Von
Richthofen was dead before his
plane hit the ground”
—
forces claimed credit for killing formation.
the Baron, LeBoutillier says it Eleven Sopwith Camels of the
could also have been his fellow Allied air forces tied into 27
pilot, Capt. Roy Brown, who German planes of Richthofen’s
strafed the baron less than a so-called Flying Circus on the
minute before the Australians famous day, says LeBoutillier.
began firing from the ground. “We all came back that day
The Canadian RAF" officially on both sides—except Richtho-
tributing company, and recently credits Brown.                    fen.
(BAC) and Aerospatiale, the
Concorde’s developers, be-
gan muttering about “sour
grapes” when discussing the
Proxmire report.
One Concorde designer
here at Bristol said that
“some of your congressmen
and aircraft companies are
jealous because the British
have stolen a five-year lead
on America in the matter of
supersonic transport.”
Meanwhile, Concorde pro-
totype 002 has zoomed off
the assembly line and into a
series of test flights along
an 800-mile corridor down
the west coast of Britain,
leaving a trail of sonic
booms behind it.
With thousands of British
farmers watching to see if
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"By God, I saw Brown’s trac- “We took off and climbed to
.. .         . . .„ , , - -----------o er bullets hitting into the fuse- an altitude of 12,000 feet heading
equipment is more sophistical-  who killed the Red Baron.        lage around the cockpit area,  to the southern end of our sec
ed. I had 29 hours and one min-    Richthofen shot down 80 AL   The baron turned his head,  tor In about 30 minutes we
ute before I began flying com-  lied planes before he himself  knew he had been fired on, and  reached this position and
bat in 1917 and today to get a  was shot down April 21, 1918,   continued chasing another Ca-  bumped into these aircraft and
private ticket you have to have   over Allied territory in France,   nadian pilot, Lt Wilfred May.”  got tangled with them.
50 hours;                           LeBoutillier remembers the LeBoutillier said Richthofen "Everybody was mixed un l
The kids flying today have  dogfight with absolute clarity,   may have lost his bearings be-  never saw so many German trL
the. same, spirit we did. They   he says, because “it was the   cause of the dogfight in an unu-  planes in my life1 I got right in
just have better equipment, ’ he greatest fight of any war under sual easterly wind and because the middle of em 5
reflects. He helped train U.S. pi- any circumstances.”             he was chasing May, a green pi- “They were all nulling in and
lots during World War II and Noting that Australian ground lot flying apart from the Allied out, circling around, butno one-
age is responsible for lag-
ging buyer interest in the
Concorde, according to its
developers (who once pre-
dicted they would sell 250
planes at $24 million apiece).
American critics have also
contended that the super-
sonic plane’s low passenger
payload would force carriers
to charge fares that would
break the price barrier.
But criticism from the
colonies has acted as a life-
giving injection to the Con-
corde’s backers.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - later flew for Hollywood films.
Oliver Colin LeBoutillier, be- LeBoutillier left his hometown
lieved to be the only living sur- of East Orange, N.J., to join the
vivor of the World War I dog- Canadian flying corps in 1917 to
fight that killed famous German fight in France. Today he ad-
ace “Red" Baron Manfried von mits to being "something more
Richthofen, says today’s pilots than 70,” is actively running a
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