BRABAZON COMES TO TOWN
(22 Jun 1950) The 130 ton "Bristol Brabazon One" Trans-Oceanic Air Liner has made her first appearance at London Airport. Flown by Test Pilot Bill Pegg, the great aircraft is reported to have taken kindly to Heathrow, taking off and landing a number of times before an audience that was really thrilled.
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top plane Queen of england
",,,, her first appearance at London airport", and last anywhere else. She went the way of the British Empire: into the trash heap of history. Good riddance to both!
@JBofBrisbane
5 жыл бұрын
An aircraft conceived in the 1940s for a 1930s business model, trying to find a niche in the 1950s.
@yy17782
8 ай бұрын
@@JBofBrisbanereally is the same story with the a380, weirdly