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Argues that new military aircraft will benefit from a fuel control system that is technically superior to that of the present day, and is also geared to match the yet‐to‐be‐introduced maritime patrol aircraft, Nimrod 2000's aircraft‐engine combination. Charts the case of RoSEC, a company formed in 1993 to provide complete full‐authority digital engine control systems. Claims that the new “total responsibility” approach will bring significant fuel system advantages in the commercial and military aerospace sector.

This appears when the first pageantry of the Coronation is over; although London and many other towns are still fully decorated, and over most of our Empire the celebrations continue. Librarians will recall once more that the interest of George VI. in libraries was manifested when he undertook to open Sheffield's central library, and we know that he has promised to lay the foundation stones of important library extensions in the near future. If there are librarians—we do not know them—who think these examples of royal interest are of no particular moment, we can assure them that they do not interpret the common attitude of their people. It was King George V. who first gave significant recognition to the national value of libraries in modern times, and his words at the opening of Manchester central library, which were quoted by us at the time: “To our urban populations open libraries are as essential to health of mind as open spaces to health of body,” cannot be repeated too often, even if our county colleagues may ask if they are not also essential to our rural population.

The main emphasis of nutritional study, until within comparatively recent years, was placed on a consideration of the energy or calorie value of a diet. A diet was considered sufficient or otherwise depending on the number of calories it contained. The modern trend in nuitrition, however, has tended to follow an opposite direction—the quantitative aspect has been relegated to a subsidiary position, and the quality of the diet is now considered as of supreme importance. In this qualitative assessment vitamins have been placed in the forefront, and there has been a tendency to overstress the nutritional importance of these essentials to the exclusion of perhaps as important dietary constituents.

The 1988 decision by British engineering company Rolls‐Royce to launch a new gas turbine engine at the top end of the power market was a bold move.

Aerospace manufacturers worldwide are under intensifying pressure from customers insisting their products become available earlier, attain higher standards of quality and cost less to buy and operate. This relentless demand is forcing manufacturers to rethink the processes they use for defining their products and to introduce some bold initiatives in an effort to stave off competitors.

To today's average airline passenger, aviation fuel is out of sight and out of mind, an incidental aspect of airline travel which can safely be taken for granted. The only likely indicator to the presence of kerosine is the occasional glimpse of a fuelling vehicle from the airliner's windows before take‐off.