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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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The Britannia derived from No. 111.

The Brabazon and Britannia were different aircraft.

Read about the Brababzon project.

Not in the early to mid 50s they never. The Viscount was a big seller
in
the US, so was the BAC 1-11.


The stretched Viscounts sold well in the US, the BAC One-Eleven was not
a
turboprop.

We know. It was the second short haul jet, the first being the French
Caravelle.


That it was not

Deliveries began in 1965 , the Boeing 727 entered service in 1964
and the Tupolev TU-124 entered service between Moscow and
Ulyanovsk in December 1962

Keith