Word: boac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...London journalist, Williams writes as if he knows London. If so, those in search of a really swinging scene might just as well cancel that BOAC flight and book seats instead for Katmandu-or even Kansas City...
...took sides on Lord Coal's role. In an editorial headlined "A Damning Indictment," the London Financial Times argued for what it called "the honorable tradition that whenever a disaster occurs the man in command should go." Not so, snapped Sir Miles Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B...
...circulation papers on the Continent or the U.S. Their classified-ad pages frequently serve as arenas for the commerce of sex. British admen have learned to use sexual innuendo with such effect that some ads have had to be withdrawn for their raunchiness, including one two weeks ago by BOAC, the government airline. What was whispered about in one age or snickered at in another is now lustily shouted...
...soared close to Japan's Mount Fuji on a cloudless day in March 1966, a BOAC 707 jet was suddenly battered by tremendous gusts of wind that broke it apart. All 124 persons aboard were killed. High over Wyoming in equally clear skies in March 1967, a United Air Lines 720 jet was wrenched into an 8,000-ft. plunge. Inside the cabin, a passenger was flung against the ceiling and fatally injured...
...airlines-Pan American, TWA, American, Northwest Orient, Continental, United, National and World Airways-have ordered 70 of the big planes. Other orders have come from Lufthansa German Airlines, Japan Air Lines, BOAC, Air France, Alitalia, Irish International Airlines, KLM and Air-India. Most of the carriers prefer a first-and tourist-class seating that allows for 350 to 362 passengers. To Boeing, which had originally planned the 747 as a military transport that would be similar to Lockheed's successful C-5A, this almost negates the whole idea of the nine-abreast economy airliners. To prove the point, Boeing...