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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 0213.PDF
Flight, 16 January, 1959 Keeping Pace on the ground with Progress in the Air In the air phenomenal advances have been made in a brief span of time. Speeds have increased enormously. Continents are now overflown non-stop. Each year the volume of air traffic grows greater. Such progress has been possible only because essential services have kept pace on the ground. In the not-so-distant past when BP began fuelling operations, it sufficed to use 2-gallon cans man-handled from an open lorry. Now the latest airliners require 20,000 gallons a 'hop', to be delivered—because of ever swifter turn-rounds—in less than 20 minutes. By unceasing research and technical development AIR BP, the pioneer of turbine fuelling, is prepared for this challenge. Its latest 10,000 gallon super-fuellers deliver at 750 gallons a minute; its hydrant systems carry fuel underground right to the aircraft at even higher flow rates. With a new range of lubricants and special products, improved methods of filtration, a complex ground organisation to support aviation, AIR BP is poised today for even greater achievements. NEW SYMBOL OF THE AVIATION SERVICE OF BRITISH PETROLEUM
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