First prototype of the Fairchild F-27 Friendship is now flying along with three other prototypes, which will be used for test purposes. The F-27 can carry 32-40 passengers according to the internal configuration.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Fokker F.27 Friendship - НидерландыNetherlands - 1955

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: FIAT (Alenia) G.91R - ИталияItaly - 1956

The Dart Herald is a fast, adaptable airliner for the shorter routes. It carries up to 43 passengers in a style to which any traveller gladly becomes accustomed. They relax in pressurised, air-conditioned comfort, enjoying the smoothness of turboprop flight. Alternatively, the Herald takes over 4 1/2 tons of cargo or combinations of passengers and freight. Between cabin and hold is a partition which can be set in several positions to give differing passenger and cargo space for each flight.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Handley Page H.P.R.3 Herald / H.P.R.7 Dart Herald - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1955

Adding achievement to achievement, Fairey Aviation have now built - and flown - potentially the most important transport aeroplane in the world, the Fairey Rotodyne. Carrying 48 passengers or 4 1/2 tons of freight it takes off vertically as a helicopter and having gained height flies forward as a normal twin-engined airliner. It is the most adaptable rotary-wing aircraft in the world and the first to offer operating economy directly comparable to that of fixed wing aircraft over ranges of up to 400 miles. The arrangement within the Rotodyne's capacious fuselage can readily be adapted to suit civil or military applications. Powered by two Napier Eland propeller-turbines with Fairey Pressure-Jets at the flies the first vertical take-off Airliner rotor-tips for take-off and landing.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Fairey Rotodyne - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1957