Word: boac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully aware. (Watkinson also tried to soothe British egos by stating that BOAC's U.S. jets will use homemade Rolls-Royce engines installed in the Boeing air frames, thus save $25 million in dollars...
Last week's official acknowledgment of the jetliner failure pointed up a second failure: the government had made its decision months after BOAC's competitors, will now have to go to the end of a long line. Groaned the Financial Times: "Even the decision to buy the Boeing jet airliners has been left very late. BOAC will be at least a season behind its rivals in the North Atlantic...
...raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas DC-7s instead of British aircraft. Early in World War II it was Parrish who learned that a shortage of B-17 bomber spare parts was about to cause a cutback in bomber production: his story jogged the War Production Board into quick action...
BOEING JETLINERS will probably be bought by Britain's BOAC and other Commonwealth airlines. Boeing is in line to get order for 17 planes from BOAC, another three from South African Airways to add to seven jets recently sold Australia's Qantas Empire Airways. Rumors also buzz that Boeing will get order for 19 more 707s from Howard Hughes's Trans World Airlines, which has already ordered eight...
POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...