The Airspeed Ambassador
was designed to meet the specifications
of the Brabrazon committee, a British government committee formed
to consider the future of civil aviation after WW2. Their specifications
failed to take into account the new gas turbine engines and the large
number of surplus wartime transports which flooded the market.
In the event it was
probably the latter which most affected the
Ambassador, and only 22 examples of this very aesthetic aircraft
were produced. These all went to British European Airlines (BEA)
initially, which gave it the generic name "Elizabethan", then drifted
down to third-level airlines to serve out their remaining time.
The CD includes flight
manuals for the standard Airspeed Ambassador,
plus a flight manual for the single example of a turbo-prop powered
Ambassador, has been scanned from the original flight manuals
and
retains any colour pages.
This CD contains:
1. Manufacturers manual for the Airspeed
Ambassador, titled
"Ambassador Aircraft Manual", Publication No 107 revised
to
1955, approx 473 pages.
2. BEA Operations
Manual for the "Elizabethan", BEA Approved
Technical Publication No 114 revised to 1956,
approx 365 pages.
3. BEA Operations Manual for the
"Tyne Elizabethan", revised to
amdt 89 dated September 1959, approx 330 pages. (Consists
of the standard manual as in 2. above, but with revised
pages
where the Rolls-Royce Tyne turboprop engine installation
has
caused changes.)
| CD TITLE | AMBASSADOR |
| PRICE | US$19.95 plus postage |
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