Balls – Crystal, Cloudy.

IBM forecast world demand for 6 computers; US Pres.Hoover saw every small town one day having a telephone. Aero has its full share:

“I do not believe we will get much operational value out of the Canberra from 1955”. ACAS(OR), 22/2/52,T.Buttler/Bombers,P.87

Minister of Materials Swinton,House of Lords, May,’52, on Britannia/Comet: “We may have collared the market for a generation.”

Reporting VC10 first flight 29 June,1962 Flight: it would arrest 707 (550 then sold), as “demand has been filled.” 1,010 built to 1994.

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