A Time For Decision

While the Airbus people maintain their battle to secure the Ansett-TAA order for a Boeing 727-200 replacement, the competition is hotting up. The most recent entry has been the 400 version of the Lockheed TriStar, which was suggested to the domestics last April by a high-powered Lockheed team headed by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Roy A. Anderson.

Mr Anderson came here on the crest of the prestige created by the Pan American order for 12 of the long-range, cut-down version of the TriStar, the 500, which surprisingly beat the Boeing 747 SP to be the first Lockheed jet Pan Am has ever ordered. While the 500 is 12½ feet shorter than the stan­ dard TriStar, the 400 would be 20 feet shorter. The fuselage width would be the same in all versions.

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