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Aviation History
1968
1968 - 2031.PDF
WT ttr- nQi, iep- ibcr 968 TWENTY-SIXTH SBAC SHOW Illustrated with "Flight" photographs and drawings MAJOR EXPORT ORDERS for Britain's aero-engine and aircraft equipment industry: these are the highlights reflected in this week's 26th SBAC Display on its 20th anniversary at Farnborough. Rolls-Royce's RB.211 for the Lockheed 1011; Dowty's undercarriage for the McDonnell Douglas DC-10; a six-company consortium £13 million order for Iranian civil airport equipment; Lucas, Elliott and Hobson contributions to Lockheed's C-5A; Smiths approaching a thousand machmeter/ASIs for Boeing; an American company licensed to produce a range of Avimo pitot heads: an industry to whose strength the number of British-powered and equipped foreign aircraft at Farnborough bears witness. New British aircraft are seen at an SBAC Display for the first time: BAC One-Eleven 500; Beagle Pups; HSA Nimrod; Shorts'Garrett-Skyvan; two production Harriers flying and one in the exhibition tent. No Jaguar and no Concorde; but with the world's first supersonic airliner now complete, the Olympus Vulcan provides a physical reminder of its imminent flight trials. There is the physical presence, in model and mock-up, of the world's longest aircraft, the American Cameo V-Liner being built by a British company; and predicted UK aerospace sales of £1,000 million for this year, of which perhaps £250 million will be for export—or £4,000 per man (in a 250,000-strong industry) per year, £1,000 per man for export. A soundly commercial, if not spectacularly novel, SBAC Display.
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