TWO-DECK AIRLINER
Details Given By B.A.C. (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, July 4. The first details of a giant new Super VCIO two-deck airliner, capable of carrying 265 passengers from London to New York, have been announced in London by the British Aircraft Corporation. The corporation said that the airliner would be only 33ft longer than the existing 180seat version and would use the same engines, wings and tail structure. Eighty per cent of its passengers would be -carried on the top deck and the remainder below. A corporation spokesman said the larger Super VCIO would reduce the passenger seat a mile cost of the present long-range jet by 20 per cent.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30795, 6 July 1965, Page 10
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