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... Britain on the world map for the first time as a supplier of civil airliners but also made the turboprop , and especially the Dart , acceptable all over the world so that this engine soon displaced the piston engine from short- and ...
... Britain on the world map for the first time as a supplier of civil airliners but also made the turboprop , and especially the Dart , acceptable all over the world so that this engine soon displaced the piston engine from short- and ...
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... Britain and France had both conducted extensive SST studies , and it is no easy thing for two proud nations jointly to create a single entity out of two national ones . In Britain Avro had worked on the Model 735 , a direct conversion ...
... Britain and France had both conducted extensive SST studies , and it is no easy thing for two proud nations jointly to create a single entity out of two national ones . In Britain Avro had worked on the Model 735 , a direct conversion ...
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... Britain was several times as great as the total done in France , the world was left thinking the French had an SST and Britain did not . What was even more significant was that the Super Caravelle was very much the right shape for a ...
... Britain was several times as great as the total done in France , the world was left thinking the French had an SST and Britain did not . What was even more significant was that the Super Caravelle was very much the right shape for a ...
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Illustrations | 7 |
Aircraft Propulsion | 9 |
Birth of the Jet | 21 |
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