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...Aircraft Corp., which managed to beat U.S. planemakers into the short-haul business, has delivered 85 of its twin-jet BAC One-Elevens, has orders for 67 more (none from U.S. airlines). And competition is growing. Next month The Netherlands expects to start test flights of its 65-passenger Fokker twin-jet F-28. At $2,350,000 per plane, Fokker figures that it can still grab a profitable chunk of business...
...twin-engine jet that will carry from 50 to 60 passengers, cruise at 500 m.p.h., give optimum performance on the 100-mile to 200-mile hops that are the bread and butter of the regionals. Fairchild will produce the plane in cooperation with Royal Netherlands Aircraft Factories Fokker. Since the Dutch company has already designed the plane and built its prototype, the F-28, Fairchild Miller's development costs will be shaved in half. In addition, the U.S. company will sell the F28 in the Western Hemisphere, purchase such F228 components as the tail assembly, wing segments...
...European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28 twio-jet airliner built with German, English and North Irish collaboration...
...short-range jet, the twin-engined 737, which is expected to be cleared for production within a month. North American Aviation is studying designs for its Centuryliner, a slightly smaller entry in the field. Abroad, The Netherlands is preparing to enter the race by designing a Fokker F28 Fellowship, and France already has four Nord 262 turboprops in the air and has orders for seven Super-Caravelles, which are only months away from delivery date...
...jitney service with a secondhand Studebaker, did so well he soon had twelve cars. But the government refused him a franchise to operate into Melbourne because he was competing with government-owned railroads, and Ansett defiantly went airborne; no one seemed to care about the air. He bought a Fokker Universal, grandly painted "Ansett Airways" on its side, and began flying between Melbourne and Hamilton. He also took passengers along on stunt flights at $3.50 an hour...