NEW DELTA JET AIRLINER

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27065, 13 June 1953, Page 7

NEW DELTA JET AIRLINER

“BRITAIN SIX YEARS AHEAD OF U.S.” LONDON, June 11. A revolutionary delta-winged jet airliner has been designed to carry more than 100 passengers through the stratosphere from London to New York in five or six hours—and return the same day. t. * It puts Britain six years ahead of any competition from the United States. Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, said today; Details of the airliner, the Avro Atlantic, based on the Avro Vulcan bomber now being built for the Koyal Air Force, were released today. The Atlantic will fly non-stop from London to New York, cruising at more than 600 miles an hour at 40,000 ft, with between 90 and 113 passengers. Passengers will travel in a luxurious pressurised cabin equipped with a bar, and completely insulated from the noise of the airliner’s four jet engines. The A V. Roe Aircraft Company designed the aeroplane and co-operated on technical operating details with the corporation. ~ Sir Miles Thomas said aeronautically the Atlantic was way ahead of anything in the air at the moment. Sir Roy Dobson, head of the Roe Company, said the Atlantic, now in the project stage, would fly, at the low operating cost of about Id a passenger a statue'mile. “On receipt of a reasonable production order, we can promise delivery in 1958,” he said. The Atlantic, with a wing span or 121 ft and 145 ft long, is being designed in three types, all of which have rearfacing seats. . , Ninety-four passengers will be carried in the basic version, 113 in the tourist version, and 76 in the luxury version. CHURCH CRITICISM OF DUKE (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 12 In a cabled message yesterday it was stated that the Church of Scotland. meeting at Glasgow, had criticised the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo on a Sunday. The message should have read the “United Free Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland does not meet in Glasgow.

B.C.P.A. Directorship.—The Australian Government has appointed Sir Hudson Fysh to fill a vacancy on the board of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines. —Sydney, June 12.