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1954
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646 FLIGHT Transport Aircraft • 1954... Over 70,000 lb (contd.) France, probably represents the present-day peak of luxury in inter-continental air travel. The Stratocruiser is smoother and quieter than most piston-engined transports, and has the added attraction of a lower-deck lounge connected to the main cabin by a spiral staircase. Fifty-three of the big Boeings are in service today—25 with P.A.A., 10 each with B.O.A.C. and Northwest Airlines and six with United Air Lines. A military version, the C-97, is still in production, and more than 500 have already been built. Stratocruiser (four Wasp Major, total 14,000 h.p.).—Span, 141ft 3in; length, 110ft 4in; take-off weight, 145,800 lb; wing loading, 82.4 lb/sq ft; take-off distance, 7,075ft; passenger capacity, 50-80; typical perform ance, 300 m.p.h. for 3,000 miles at 25,000ft with 24,500 lb payload. Avro Tudor Air Charter). Blackburn Beverley I Universal prototype. Breguet Deux-Ponts Provence (Air France). Boeing Stratoliner. BOEING 367-80 STRATOLINER • The Boeing Airplane Company has spent no less than £5,350,000 on the design, development and construction of the jet transport prototype due to fly next month. Popularly known as the "707," the aircraft has the company designation 367-80 and is a multi-purpose machine intended for demonstration in three separate roles to three separate customers. The basic design can be adapted as (a) a military tanker for the U.S.A.F. Strategic Air Command; (b) a trooper/freighter for M.A.T.S., which, incidentally, is the largest air-transport organization in the world; and (c) a long- and medium-range commercial airliner. The civil model, with which we are here concerned, will bear the revived name of Stratoliner: its predecessor, still in isolated airline service, was the first pressurized airliner in the world. Boeing claim that the new Stratoliner, carrying 80 to 130 passengers and cruising at 550 m.p.h. will "out-produce the best of piston-engined airliners, in terms of work capacity, by more than two to one." In U.S. domestic service it should be capable of reducing the coast-to-coast journey time from seven to five hours, and as a transatlantic mainliner it would fly direct from New York to London "in less than seven hours." Superficially the Strato liner contrasts with the Comet 3 in having separate, pod installa tions for its four jet engines—J57s of 10,000 lb thrust. It is also a larger machine, weighing up to 190,000 lb compared with 145,000 lb; both span and length are greater by 17ft. The jet Stratoliner promises to be an impressive performer and there is a deal of sober confidence behind the manufacturer's declared intention to "market a jet transport which will successfully com pete with all comers in 1956." Stratoliner (four J57, total 40,000 lb s.t.).—Span, 130ft; length, 128ft; take-off weight, 190,000 lb; wing loading, 79 lb/sq ft; take-off distance, 7,700ft; passenger capacity, 80-130; typical performance, 550 m.p.h. for 4,000 miles at 35,000ft with 16,000 lb payload.
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