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...London, and all of them fly American-made planes: mostly Boeing's 707, with a few Douglas DC-8s. This has been a bit embarrassing for the British, and this week they begin to do something about it. Into passenger service across the Atlantic goes the new Super VC 10, made by British Aircraft Corp. and flown by British Overseas Airways Corp. Making the most of innovation and looking ahead to supersonic jets, BOAC is beckoning jaded transatlantic travelers to board "the most advanced aircraft you can fly in for the next six years...
...Super VC 10 has some radical innovations for a plane its size. It mounts its four engines aft on twin pods attached to the fuselage, much like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...
...rockets and revolution, monarchy rarely receives its due. Not so last week in the mountainous realm of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. The Lion of Judah knows how to roll out a red carpet -and indeed when Queen Elizabeth II's bellowing VC-IO jetliner appeared over Addis Ababa last week, an Ethiopian army truck was still nudging its way through the airport crowd with yards and yards of the stuff...
...mere three minutes' flying time from Saigon, heavily armed HU-1B spotted a concentration of guerrillas. "There's a whole mess of VC nice and open right under us," announced the pilot over his radio. "We're going down after them." The chopper descended, .60-cal. machine guns clattering, rockets dropping from the pods. "Watch them go," cried the pilot, Captain Gary Riggins of Antioch, Calif. These were his last words...
...Better Than No Worse. The compromise solution worked out last week pleased no one, and left BOAC's troubles unresolved. The government let BOAC off with the purchase of 17 of the 30 Super VC-10s; the Royal Air Force will take three, and production of the remaining ten will be suspended. To meet the payments of $9,000,000 per VC-10, BOAC now needs a larger handout, or perhaps even a write-off of part or all of its accumulated $224 million deficit. Said Sir Giles: "The government will ensure that financially we will...