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440 FLIGHT International, 25 March 1945 AIR TRANSPORT T0WARD8 200-SEAT BOEINGS DELIVERY date of the 200-seat Boeing 707-620, domestic version of the stretched 707, is spring 1967 according to Aviation Week. Delivery date of the 707-820, which is the intercontinental develop- ment (more than just a stretch) would be in the spring of 1968. Price of the 820 is expected to be about $10m compared with about f 8m for the smaller 620. First details of the two new 707 developments were published in Flight for January 28, page 130. A note appeared last week about Eastern's potential requirement for four stretched-version Douglas DC-8s (page 396). According to Boeing's president, a decision to go ahead with either the 620 or 820 may be made this year, though this would depend on orders. Engine of the 620 is to be the same as that of the intercontinental Boeing 7O7-32OB, namely the Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B turbofan. Engine of the 820 may be something larger than the P & W JT3D-5 A (Lockheed StarLifter engine). According to our American con- temporary, Boeing have decided that the 820 needs "a more advanced engine, which Pratt & Whitney is now developing." This is not likely to be as large as the 39,0001b STF.219 (Flight, March 4) now being developed on the test bed for the C-5A programme. ONE-ELEVENS FOR ALOHA AN order for two BAC Series 200 One-Elevens from the Hawaiian carrier Aloha Airlines has now been announced (see Flight, "Sensor," February 18, page 233). They will be laid out for 84 passengers. The British Aircraft Corporation had been courting Hawaii's two airlines, Aloha and Hawaiian, for a long time, and Aloha especially since Hawaiian decided last November to order the Douglas DC-9. Although Aloha are happy with their three Viscount 745s and two F-27s, Hawaiian's decision to buy DC-9s—at the instigation of the new president, Jack Magoon—for delivery in 1966 inevitably brought Aloha's jet date forward. Cynics might say that Aloha, being so fiercely competitive with Hawaiian, might have been expected to order One-Elevens just to be different. It is true that BAC can, and will, deliver One-Elevens to Aloha before Douglas can deliver DC-9s to Hawaiian; but US airlines do not lightly decide to import foreign aircraft when there is a comparable Ameri- can product available. Aloha has always favoured the One-Eleven. Both the Hawaiian airlines have been the subject of recent articles in Flight—Aloha was discussed in an Airline Profile in our issue of November 12, 1964, and Hawaiian's history and plans were dealt with in a page article in the issue of December 24,1964. The Aloha order brings the total sales and options for the One- Eleven to 95—71 of them for US carriers, including 30 for American Airlines. DC-9 ORDERED BY KLM KLM has converted its option on six Douglas DC-9s into a firm order. The first aircraft is scheduled to be delivered to the Dutch airline in January 1966, the others then following at the rate of one per month. This will make the entire fleet of six available to KLM in the summer of 1966. The DC-9s will replace the Viscounts, which will be withdrawn from service, and also, to some extent, the airline's Electras. The total value of the order, including spares, technical equipment and a flight simulator, is given as £9m ($25m). The order for six is understood to be an initial one, which will later be increased— possibly to as many as 14 aircraft. KLM has already concluded agreements with Swissair—so far the only other DC-9 operator in Europe—for close technical and operational co-operation. Accord- ing to this agreement Swissair is to overhaul KLM's DC-9 engines while KLM will take care of Swissair's DC-8 engines. KLM chose the DC-9 mainly because of its strong technical japan Air Lines' first passenger-cargo DC-8F was de/ivered earlier this month and will enter trans-Pacific service on April I. Initially it will be used for mixed loads, with 126 economy-class seats aft and three pallets of cargo in the forward compartment. Stats will be reduced to 84 and pallets to six at periods when cargo traffic increases. JAL hopes eventually to use the DC-8F for all-cargo operations JAPAN AIR LINES
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