Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 7, 2021 19:52:35 GMT 12
This is about the craziest thing I have ever heard, hahahaha.
Use Of Vulcan Plane Suggested
CIVIL VERSION OF JET BOMBER
"The Press’* Special. Service WELLINGTON, July 20.
Introduction of the Vulcan — a delta-wing four-engine jet aircraft — to the services of Tasman Empire Airways is one of the aims of Mr J. A. R. Kay, sales director of the A. V. Roe and Company and travelling representative of the Hawker-Siddeley Aircraft Group, in visiting New Zealand. The Vulcan is in production as a heavy bomber for the Royal Air Force. Mr Kay says that, if an order were placed for it, a civil version could be in operation by 1959. It would carry 150 passengers.
Mr Kay has been in Wellington for four days. He has had long talks with the Minister of Civil Aviation (Mr T. L. Macdonald) and the Chief of the Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Merton) about various aircraft at present in the drawing-board stage.
“Of course, the whole thing is secret, and I could only show some photographs and drawings. But I can say that some very serious interest is being shown in them,” said Mr Kay. During his visit, Mr Kay presented the No. 75 Squadron Association with paintings of its Lancaster bombers in action over Germany.
PRESS, 21 JULY 1954
Use Of Vulcan Plane Suggested
CIVIL VERSION OF JET BOMBER
"The Press’* Special. Service WELLINGTON, July 20.
Introduction of the Vulcan — a delta-wing four-engine jet aircraft — to the services of Tasman Empire Airways is one of the aims of Mr J. A. R. Kay, sales director of the A. V. Roe and Company and travelling representative of the Hawker-Siddeley Aircraft Group, in visiting New Zealand. The Vulcan is in production as a heavy bomber for the Royal Air Force. Mr Kay says that, if an order were placed for it, a civil version could be in operation by 1959. It would carry 150 passengers.
Mr Kay has been in Wellington for four days. He has had long talks with the Minister of Civil Aviation (Mr T. L. Macdonald) and the Chief of the Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Merton) about various aircraft at present in the drawing-board stage.
“Of course, the whole thing is secret, and I could only show some photographs and drawings. But I can say that some very serious interest is being shown in them,” said Mr Kay. During his visit, Mr Kay presented the No. 75 Squadron Association with paintings of its Lancaster bombers in action over Germany.
PRESS, 21 JULY 1954
