BAe-31 Jetstream / Piedmont CommuterHP 137 BAe 31 Jetstream Piedmont Commuter model. The Jetstream was originally a project of the very old British aviation company Handley Page. But when production costs (originally projected to be 3 million pounds) exceeded 13 million pounds, the company went into voluntary liquidation, this coming just one year after the company celebrated its diamond jubilee on June 17, 1969. It was finally Scottish Aviation Ltd. which continued manufacture of the

The A340-200 and 300 are the initial variants of the successful quad engined A340 family of long haul widebodies

including the previously discussed North American B-45 Tornado

the United States was ready to send of its own first man into space aboard the Mercury Space Capsule

with first deliveries following shortly afterwards

much-modified version of the first-generation X-1

and nuclear devices

the world's first medium-range turboprop airliner

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500 Sabre Day-fighters were built in the U

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It was air-refuelable from HC-130N/Ps

and can be used on landing strips such as those found in advanced base operations