SNOW HOLDS UP TRIALS OF NEW AIRCRAFT.—The de Havilland Trident, a three-jet, 600-mile-an-hour airliner, stands on the airfield at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, as snow on the runway prevents taxi-ing trials on the newly-completed plane. Beyond it, a Comet 4-C, to be used for the Royal Air Force Transport Command, is also weatherbound while awaiting test flights. The Trident’s three engines are mounted at the rear of the fuselage. Twenty-four of the aircraft have been ordered by British European Airways at a total cost, including spares, of nearly £30,000,000.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 11
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87SNOW HOLDS UP TRIALS OF NEW AIRCRAFT.—The de Havilland Trident, a three-jet, 600-mile-an-hour airliner, stands on the airfield at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, as snow on the runway prevents taxi-ing trials on the newly-completed plane. Beyond it, a Comet 4-C, to be used for the Royal Air Force Transport Command, is also weatherbound while awaiting test flights. The Trident’s three engines are mounted at the rear of the fuselage. Twenty-four of the aircraft have been ordered by British European Airways at a total cost, including spares, of nearly £30,000,000. Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 11
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