It displays the handling characteristics of a very primitive design and is known to be unpredictable especially on landing.
This is a risk to any passengers and crew on board but moreso to other aircraft and passengers on the ground.
Given a choice very few people would fly in them or fly them.

I’ve flown on a few of them when AAL used them and would again, if I had the chance.

They are doing well at present – so I don’t see anything wrong with ‘difficult’ contract negotiations for research funding – it possibly means they are trying to be focussed on channels of research and define deliverables within their development ‘road maps’.

No, it’s got nothing to do with that. They just have a rather different (and IMHO paranoid) view of the world compared with other organisations who fund research at universities.

The secret is Rolls Royce continuously pour in R&D funding back into their companies and this is the simple but effective way of staying ahead of the game.

I am sorry to say that Rolls Royce is the one company that makes my heart sink when I see a research funding contract landing on my desk which has their name on it as I just know that contract negotiations will be “difficult”.

So you asked about average stage lengths and I’ve found a copy of the IATA publication ‘Airline Economic Results and Prospects 1999-2000’ which, for my sins, I edited.

Table 18 in part 1 of the publication gives some summary statistics for the various route areas we collected year 2000 data for (detailed individual airline data from the data collection was not published although you could work out figures from the ICAO Form A data which is published).

Just to put it into context we collected data from 43 airlines which represented 49.3% of total IATA member carrier international scheduled RTKs in 2000 (revenue tonne kilometres) and added in DOT Form 41 data for 12 US member carriers that took the total representation level up to 65.5% of total IATA international scheduled RTKs in 2000.

Anyway, back to Table 18 which gives average stage lengths for 2000 and a few key ones are

Within Europe (total) 956 km

This route area is made up from the following components

Within Northern Europe 761 Km
Within Southern Europe 932 km
Trans Europe 1336 km

For comparison, the average stage length for flights in the North Atlantic route area was 5,034 km and the Transpacific was 4,756 km.

it usually visits Boscombe when it comes here

Of course you could always go to the airline’s investor page where they publish summary traffic data. Like BA for example. Without access to CRS/BSP data you won’t be able to calculate it yourself.

http://press.ba.com/?p=1060

If the Americans are giving an Air Display at Farnborough this year you may get a Display over Blackbush instead, as they did a few years back!
Nosmo

As well as the B-52 “flypast” I think the B-1 went through Lasham the previous show..