By JohnWR.Taylor & Gordon Swanborough
There has been a time whilst civil plane have been some distance much less attention-grabbing and fabulous than army forms. this present day all that has replaced. The supersonic Concorde, constructed at a value of greater than and a part billion money, fills newspaper headlines virtually day-by-day, making there-and-back flights around the Atlantic whereas a Boeing 747 completes a one-way trip, but having to conflict opposed to those that desire to see it scrapped.
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Accommodation: Up to 400 passengers. 211-22B turbofans. 34m). 35m). Gross weight: 430,0001b (195,050kg). Max payload: 86,1831b (39,092kg). Cruising speed: 560mph (901km/h) (10,670m). Range: 2,677 miles (4,308km) with at 35,000ft max payload. The Airlines outline specification of 1965, Lockheed elected to use a three-engined layout, with two underwing pods and the third broadly engine in the rear fuselage. similar layout was chosen independently for the competitive DC-10 (see page 46). Initial orders for the TriStar came from Eastern Air Lines and Delta Air Lines.
Eastern Air Lines was first to put the Electra into on January 12, 1959, followed by American Airlines on January 23 and other US operators during 1959. First overseas airlines to use the Electra were Cathay Pacific, Ansett-ANA, TAA, and Qantas, all in 1959. The first Electra operator in Europe (and the only European airline to order the Electra) was KLM, which operated the type from 1959 to 1968. Major US airlines which operated large fleets of Electras have now service, : at 22,000ft (6,700m).
During 1970, certification was obtained for the YS-11 A-500 and -600, similar respectively to the -200 and -300 with 1 ,1001b (500kg) increase in gross weights. When production ended in 1972, a total of 182 YS-lls had been built, current operators including Air (voire. All Nippon, Austral, Bouraq International, Cruzeiro, Filipinas Orient, Korean, Merpati Nusantara, Olympic, Piedmont, Pacific Southwest, Reeve Aleutian, Southwest, Toa Domestic, Transair and VASP. 47 Shorts SD3-30 UK Commuter and local-service passenger and freight transport, under develop- Development and Service: ment.