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bert wrote:
Another issue as the noise levels at take off. The initial sale tour was
in an aircraft using prototype engines which were substantially noisier.
Unfortunately the damage was done even though the production versions
were below the sound levels in a typical disco.

Regardless of how you try to fiddle the figures, your own ears would tell
you it was the noisiest of all passenger aircraft by a vast margin. In the
time when jets were getting quieter.

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*A fool and his money can throw one hell of a party.

Dave Plowman London SW
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