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1949
1949 - 1651.PDF
A PROSPECT OF 1954 FORTY thousand feet above the North Atlantic, the Brabazon II is oncourse for New York. In snug cabins and airy saloons sixty-odd adults doze, read or prop up the bar, while in the rear lounge, serving now as a cinema, a tittering of children at a Disney feature quite"drowns the distant hum of turbines. The date ? Some time, perhaps, in 1954; hardly earlier, for the first Brabazon II is as yet only half complete, and the Mk. I is only now entering on a formidable programme of trials; but there is no harm in visualizing, and the reader is accordingly commended to F. W. Beak's painting on this page. With it before him he may care to contemplate Britain's vast new airliner as the Poet Laureate might depict it in a new stanza of Cargoes. The serious student, however, will turn to a paper by the Laureate's cousin, Mr. Peter Masefield, for an appreciation of the Brabazon as an instrument of commerce. In its way as much a classic as Cargoes, this erudite commentary, Some Economic Factors in Civil Aviation, describes the Brabazon as a formidable aircraft, offering prospects of a performance unequalled in competitive types.
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