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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 0963.PDF
• • t • t • • • It is understood that next month tropical trials will be carried out at Khartoum, and it will not then be very long before B.E.A. takes delivery of its first produc- tion machine. This will be the Viscount 700 with longer fuselage and slightly increased span, which will have to undergo a shortened version of the normal flight-test schedull before receiving its C. of A. °k •»<!) Tb»,4^scount lands after a demonstration at Zurich-Kloten. (2) Talking it over : officials, journalists and others at Stockholm. (3) B.P. Aviation tankers supply kerosene at Amsterdam-Schiphol. ^Xi^Laokinf into it ; The British Ambassador in Stockholm, Sir Harold Farquhar, is interested in one of the Darts. Behind him are W./C. Wyatt, Air Attache (partly obscured) and Mr. N. S. Roberts (Commercial Counsellor). (5) With her white upper surface, and finished in silver gre/ below ^.:^.*. the waist-line, the Viscount makes a graceful picture on the \ f^P'tarmac at Kloten, the airport of Zurich. (6) Taxying on two : the aircraft at Bromma Airport, Stockholm. (7) Lunch-table chat at Copenhagen. Left to right: Mr. Emil Damm of D.D.L. ; Capt. Summers ; Col. York, U.S. Air Attache ; Sir Hew Kilner ; Mr. Harttung, Danish Rolls-Royce representative ; Capt. Wakelin ; and W/C. Bray, British Air Attache, Copenhagen. (8) Tailpiece : Herr Groh and Herr von Meiss, Swissair directors, go aboard for a demonstration flight at Zurich. (9) Home again : Mr. R. C. Handasyde, Vickers Aviation sales manager ; Mrs. Summers ; Sir Hew and Lady Kilner, Capt. . Wakelin, Capt. Summers.
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