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...French Caravelle and to a lesser degree the British Comet and Viscount and the Dutch F-27 Friendship have made some inroads into what used to be almost an exclusively American market. There may be more important inroads soon. Pan American is quietly negotiating with Britain's Hawker Siddeley to buy at least 40 DH-125 jets, which it intends to man with its pilots and lease to corporations. Originally, Pan Am intended to use Lockheed JetStars, but the DH-125, at $550,000, costs only one-third as much...
...plane, and even though Britain's P.1154 has a clear jump on the field, officials already are worried. "The U.S. could ask everybody to hold off and wait for theirs," said one Briton, and that might mean grave trouble for big planemakers like British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley...
...much-publicized crashes and the lack of resources to compete with U.S. giants. As a survival measure, the British government pressured the British aviation industry into consolidating into two major groups in 1960. The groups: 1) British Aircraft Corp., composed of Vickers, English Electric and Bristol, and 2) Hawker Siddeley, which took de Havilland under its wing...
...Corporate D.H. 125: At a field just north of London last week, Hawker Siddeley's high-tailed D.H. 125 made its first flight. Designed to operate on short runways and cruise with six passengers at 480 m.p.h., it is Britain's entry in the market for corporate jets. Price...
...Medium-Range D.H. 121 Trident: Three jet engines are placed in the rear of Hawker Siddeley's radical Trident, now being flight-tested. It is designed to carry 79 passengers, cruise at 606 m.p.h. and range to 1,000 miles, ideal for travel within Europe and the Middle East. Price: $3.6 million. British European Airways has ordered 24 Tridents, and expects to put them in service in 1963; but Hawker Siddeley must sell at least 76 more to break even. This will take some doing, because the Trident is in nose-to-nose competition with the new medium-range...