Word: boac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...Ceiling. The British Overseas Airways Corp., largest of Britain's three government-owned airlines, reported that it lost about $32,500,000 in its first year of postwar commercial operations (ending in March 1947). BOAC blamed most of the loss on the uneconomic planes it has been forced...
Across the Atlantic, where our equipment is as modern as that of any airline . . . BOAC frequencies have reached eight round-trips weekly, and during a recent period BOAC carried the highest number of passengers per plane between the terminal points of New York and Montreal and London. Incidentally, in addition to the five Constellations which you mentioned, BOAC will also, in the early part of next year, add six Boeing Stratocruisers...
...would take all of. Straight's enterprise and all of Sir Harold's science to get BOAC through the next five years. That is the estimated minimum time it will take the British aircraft industry to perfect the jet transports with which it hopes to surpass U.S. planes. Until then, BOAC will have to make do with obsolete, uneconomic transports, many of them converted bombers, and with intermediate new models now abuilding, such as the big Shetland flying boat (see cut). BOAC bought five Constellations, was about to get more when the Labor Government forbade it to spend...
...BOAC's sister company, British South American Airways, is experimenting with a new trick to speed up Britain's lumbering transports: nonstop Atlantic crossings with midair refueling over the Azores from 'tanker" planes. While Britain bumbles along, smaller nations with bright new U.S. planes are catching some of the cream of world air travel...