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1959
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4 SEPTEMBER 1959 FLIGHT 65 Only the VANGUARD paces the jets at much less than half the cost ALL ROUND Europe, and on record flights in Canada, the Vickers Vanguard has been logging block times which have proved that on short and middle distance routes it can more than hold its own with the jets. It has, in zero wind, beaten current jet schedules on sectors as long as London- Rome (955 st. miles). It has flown London-Gander (2,365 st. miles) in 5 hours 30 minutes, and Toronto-Montreal (335 st. miles) in a record 58 minutes in zero wind. Other Vanguard block times are : LONDON-BRUSSELS 230 miles in 45 minutes (5 m.p.h. headwind). LONDON-HAMBURG 470 miles in 73 minutes—a record (17 m.p.h. tailwind). LONDON-PARIS 224 miles in 41 minutes (zero wind). PREST WICK-KEFL AVI K 920 miles in 2 hours 35 minutes (zero wind). KEFLAVIK- MONTREAL 2,360 miles in 6 hours 2 minutes (30 m.p.h. head- wind). The Vanguard has achieved these block speeds at costs nearly one-third of those of comparable pure jet aircraft. Recent U.S.A. figures show jet aircraft flight hour direct costs as 2.8 times greater than those of the Vanguard, and seat mile direct costs 2.6 times as great. The Vickers Vanguard has, without doubt, the biggest profit potential ever offered to the airline industry —• and it offers it at proved realistic com- petitive speeds. The Economy Class cheap-fare capabilities of the Vanguard are at the forefront of the now established world movement for popular air travel. Only the Vickers Vanguard can bring these vast new markets to the Airlines on short and medium haul routes, at a substantial profit, and the Vanguard can do this writh schedules as fast, if not faster, than any other aircraft. Vanguard costs used in this comparison are to A.T.A. formula. Both the Viscount J45 and the Viscount 810 filed costs have been proved in practice to be substantially below such A.T.A. formula costs. ALTITUDE FEET THE VANGUARD ACHIEVES ITS FAST BLOCK TIMES BECAUSE SPEED CAN BE MAINTAINED WHATEVER THE ALTITUDE ROUTEING INSTRUCTIONS 340 380 420 460 CRUISE AIRSPEED - M.P.H. 30,000 20,000 10,000 0 S \ ! Of all the airliners only the Vanguard has all these features 425 m.p.h. cruising • Freight capacity 10 tons at normal densities • Full routeing and A.T.C. flexibility • Can use normal existing airfields • Quick turn-round • No airfield noise problems • Ten years' unique Vickers/Rolls-Royce turbo-prop experience . . . And it is 'Viscount' quiet. VICKERS FOUR ROLLS-ROYCE TYNE TURBO-PROP ENGINES • The airliner with the biggest profit potential ever offered to the operator VICKERS-ARMSTRONGS (AIRCRAFT) LIMITED WEYBR/DGE SURREY ATU7
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