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866 FLIGHT International, 28 November 1963 BOEING 727 "Flight International" operators' reference drawing (see page 862 for key) © lliffe Transport Publications Ltd 1963 FRJONT fUElCH-T HOLP 390 ou- -ft Commercial Aircraft of the World ... completely new design. A full description of the design and development history appeared in Flight International of May 9, 1963. The decision to go ahead was taken in December 1960 with the signing of contracts by Eastern Air Lines and United Air Lines for 40 aircraft each. The first 727 flew on February 9 this year, and by early November a total of 13 had flown. Delivery of the first (uncertificated) 727, to United, was made on October 29, 1963. Boeing expect to deliver more than 75 727s in 1964. 733 For some years the type number 733 has been allocated to Boeing supersonic-air liner designs. The company is now one of the three American manufacturers who are work ing on the design of a long-range supersonic transport. Together with the competing designs from Lockheed and North American, the Boeing design will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Agency by January 15, 1964. The FAA hope that a clearly superior pro-. The company-owned Boeing 727 in flight over the Rocky Mountains posal will come forward at that stage to enable a decision to proceed with development to be taken by May 1, 1964. If two designs appear equally attractive the competition may be extended by up to 12 months. BOLKOW-SIAT The BMow-SIAT Association, Ottobrimn Bei Miinchen, Germany. BS-210 The two companies, Bolkow and SIAT have combined to design a twin engined light transport designed for feeder-line and local service airline operations in the same category as the Antonov An-14 and the Short Turbo-Skyvan. The overall layout bears a remarkable similarity to the other designs. The BS-210 was first announced at the Paris Salon in June and plans have not yet been announced for its production. BREGUET Societe Anonyme des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Breguet, 24 Rue Georges Bizet. Paris J6e, France. Bregiet 763 Deux Poirts The 763 Deux Ponts was developed frcm a similar design, the 761, which was started in 1944 and first flew in 1949. Twelve 763s were ordered by Air France in 1951, and most of them are still operated oy the airline under the name Provence. Anotne 15 are operated by the French Air Force under the name Sahara. Breguet 941 and 942 years Breguet have For more than ten ,avc been developing philosophy of conferring high lift on abas,ca ' conventional multi-slotted flap wing at low forward speed by immersing it 'n ^ propeller slipstreams. Their first a • employing the principle was the purely exp
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