Workers Diary
Socialist Press1975 1975-03-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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Aeronautics enthusiasts will have noted with interest the new discovery in Texas of the skeleton of a huge pterodactyl-like flying reptHe with a wing span of over S1 feet (wider than many jet fighters).
In its heyday (some 60 million years ago) this creature would zoom around on leathery (featherless) wings, like a prehistoric Concorde. But the debate among devotees is now a fierce one.
For with the enormous amount of energy (and fuel!) required by such a creature to take off conventionally it is now being asked whether it did not rather clamber up to some handy hill-top or clift and leap off, gliding gently to the ground.
This might seem rather a pointless pastime but if you are born with 51 foot wings there is not really a lot of choice. Yet there could be a brighter side to the problems of the unnamed reptile.
Concorde design staff are believ. ed to be considering this method of take-off as a fuel cconomy measure. Tractors (or even horses could tow the plane to a suitable cliff where a trained crew would give it a good push, thus pleasing both the environmentalists and the Energy Minister!
"NO FACTIONS!" - POPE Tie 237 delegates to the 32nd general congregation of the Order of Jesus (the Jesuit priesthood) dispersed in Rome on March 8th, after over 100 days of sessions, to Hospital workers have taken