BAC One-Eleven

The Whole Story

Stephen Skinner

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780752496993
• eBook ISBN:
  9780752497297
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Aviation
• Index: Technology & Engineering

In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order book for sixty aircraft, more than half were from the United States, which was an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The first project for the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation, the One-Eleven was wholly designed and built by BAC, and remained in production throughout the entire seventeen-year history of the organisation, performing strongly even when profits were at a low. After flying commercially in Europe for the last time in March 2002, here the One-Eleven is celebrated in style.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 The First Flight – Tuesday 20 August 1963
• 2 The British Aircraft Corporation and the One-Eleven Project
• 3 A Technical Description of the Aircraft
• 4 The Challenging Flight Test Programme
• 5 The 200 Series in Service
• 6 The 400 Series Development, World Tours and in Service
• 7 At last, the Stretched One-Eleven – the 500 Series
• 8 The 500 Series in Service
• 9 The Hot Rod – The One-Eleven 475 and 670
• 10 The Stillborn Civil and Military Proposals
• 11 Romania and the One-Eleven – Licence Production
• 12 The Tay One-Eleven – A Tortuous Story
• 13 Notable Accidents in Service
• 14 Bizjets and Test beds
• 15 Serving the World into the Twenty-First Century
• 16 Conclusion – What held the One-Eleven Back?
• Addendum
• Appendices
• 2 On Flight Deck of European Aviation BAC One-Eleven G-AZMF Hurn-Turin-Hurn
• 3 Aircraft Data
• 4 Table of Type Numbers
• 5 BAC One-Eleven Production List
• 6 Chronology of the BAC One-Eleven
• 7 Preserved One-Elevens
• 8 One-Eleven Test Pilots
• 9 Escape Hatches
• Bibliography
• Plate Section
• Copyright