Hawker Siddeley 748

Abstract

FOR the last twenty years aircraft manufacturers throughout the world have been preoccupied with one specific object—the design and development of a successful replacement for the Douglas DC.3/Dakota. Well over twenty different aircraft have been designed with the primary aim of fulfilling this requirement and although one or two types have achieved sales success to the tune of orders for more than a hundred aircraft, it can be argued that these types are not true DC.3 replacements at all but highly sophisticated short‐haul airliners primarily intended for operation on comparatively high‐density routes between city airfields possessing long concrete runways.