Word: boac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runway at London Airport, its four turbines whistling a high pitch, and climbed seven miles into the air carrying a full load of 36 passengers, six crewmen and 30 bags of mail. The next day, as thousands watched at Johannesburg's Palmietfontein Airport, the silver and blue BOAC jet streaked down, ending its 6,724-mile trip. Total elapsed time: 23 hours, 38 minutes. This was 8¾ hours faster than BOAC's usual nights take. Yet by refueling at friendly Beirut instead of at anti-British Cairo, the Comet had flown a route 684 miles longer...
...liner, which gobbles its fuel many times faster than a propeller plane, made five stops: Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe and Livingstone. Actually, as BOAC officials proudly pointed out, they were not trying to set speed records, just trying to fly a schedule they will meet thrice weekly, beginning next month. The Comet hit a top average speed of 525 m.p.h. on the Rome-Beirut leg, dawdled 46 minutes overtime at Khartoum's airport, wasted another half-hour at Livingstone, then regained so quickly that on the last leg Pilot R. C. Alabaster said: "We made wide sweeps to kill...
...France, BOAC, El Al (Israel), Scandinavian, K.L.M. (Dutch), L.A.I. (Italian), Sabena (Belgian), Swissair, Trans Canada...
...Planes. Their teamwork got results. When Straight began his pruning, BOAC had an incredible break-even "load factor" of 115%, would have been losing money even if every seat on every flight was filled. Gradually, Straight and Sir Miles got this down to its present 65%. Profits began to roll in even before Britain boosted airmail rates last August...
With his new Comet service, Straight is banking on jets to make BOAC one of Britain's biggest dollar-earners. By June, the line will have five Comets on hand, be able to step up the Johannesburg flights to thrice weekly. When four more Comets are received, probably by year's end, BOAC hopes to launch Comet service between New York and Bermuda and New York and the Bahamas. Because of its rapid fuel consumption and limited range, BOAC can't use the Comet on the rich North Atlantic run. But it has ordered eleven...