Boac Pacific Jet News

BOAC's new quieter 747s

A simple engine modification will cut the noise of BOAC’s 747 s by 30 per cent. The newest aircraft—the airline s ninth—already has the device and has just entered service.

Subsequent deliveries—another three aircraft are due this year—will be fitted and the eight other aircraft already in the fleet will be modified as soon as possible.

The new aircraft has an enlarged, bell shaped engine intake. This re places the panels on the intake of the older aircraft which opened at high throttle settings to allow more air to enter the engine—but which also in creased the noise.

The new intake also has more sound absorbing material fitted inside which will also help to cut down the noise from the giant fans. Passen gers, just as much as people on the ground, will benefit from the new development.

Another first

for BOAC

BOAC was the first non- American airline to build its own terminal at the John F.

Kennedy International Airport,

New York. It represents an investment of £lBm and has been in operation since June 1970. The terminal was the first n the world to be specifically designed to accommodate the Soeing 747 and supersonic air

craft of the future.

Apologies to our readers who live north of the equator For them it is SUMMER 1972, but for BOAC at least from April until October WINTER schedules are in force.

On the South Pacific route during that period popular VCIO jetliners will operate five times a week in each direction through Nadi. To Sydney and Melbourne days of operation are: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Depar tures from Nadi eastbound for Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York and London will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The time of the flights to Sydney and Melbourne is 0505 and in the other direction 0150 with check in times as 0405 and five past midnight respectively.

Auckland is linked twice-weekly by VC 10 with Fiji as well, the flights leaving Nadi on Tuesday and Sunday mornings at 0500 and departing from New Zealand on Monday and Saturday evenings arriving at Nadi at twenty minutes past midnight on Tuesdays and Sundays. Air Pacific schedules pro vide connections from the islands to BOAC’s services at Nadi.

For those planning an itinerary in the United States BOAC’s Speedbirds can pick you up for the North Atlantic crossing to London and Europe from New York, Philadelphia Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago or Miami. If you do not need to go to London first, then BOAC also has flights to Glasgow and Manchester with direct connections to Belfast Edinburgh and Birmingham. After a visit to Canada you have the choice of leaving from Toronto or Montreal for London or Glasgow with direct connections to the other British cities.

BOAC also operates an extensive route network through out Europe, the Middle East, the Orient and Africa with frequent flights, but more of that on another occasion

A BOAC 747. The jumbo jet now operates six times weekly between Britain and Australia over the Kangaroo route, via Asia and the Middle East.