AMERICAN AIRLINER
Sir,—l suggest that your correspondent “Flying O” goes into the art business and employs his talents in exposing fake old masters. Too bad, though, that his detective work on the picture of the new Lockheed Electra succeeded only in revealing that it was what, it was iritended to be—a drawing. American Airlines, however, seem to have been sufficiently impressed to order a mere 65.000.000 dollars worth of Electras, even though the Viscount was among the competition. Of course, A.A. could be wrong, not being art experts but merely one of the largest and most successful air transport operators in the field. A fruitful field for your correspondent’s aeronautical sleuthing \vould be tracing the whereabout? of the super-duper world-beaters, both civil and military, which during the last few years have been taking off frorft the drawing-boards of the British aircraft industry and apparently disappearing without trace. —Yours, etc., SOUR GRAPES. July 12, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27709, 13 July 1955, Page 3
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