BRITAIN S NEW JET AIRLINER.—An artist's impression of the Vickers VC-10, the biggest airliner to be put into production in the United Kingdom. The British Overseas Airways Corporation has signed a contract for 35 of these aircraft at a cost of £60 million. The VC-10, which is designed by the maker of the Viscount turbo-prop airliner, will carry up to 150 passengers. The rear-mounted engines, Rolls-Royce Conways, will reduce jet noise and vibration in the passenger cabins to a minimum. The first VC-10 should fly in the tatter half of 1961, and the fleet of 35 aircraft will be delivered to B.O.A.C. in 1963.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28490, 21 January 1958, Page 7
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104BRITAIN S NEW JET AIRLINER.—An artist's impression of the Vickers VC-10, the biggest airliner to be put into production in the United Kingdom. The British Overseas Airways Corporation has signed a contract for 35 of these aircraft at a cost of £60 million. The VC-10, which is designed by the maker of the Viscount turbo-prop airliner, will carry up to 150 passengers. The rear-mounted engines, Rolls-Royce Conways, will reduce jet noise and vibration in the passenger cabins to a minimum. The first VC-10 should fly in the tatter half of 1961, and the fleet of 35 aircraft will be delivered to B.O.A.C. in 1963. Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28490, 21 January 1958, Page 7
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