This stall-protection system consisted of a stick pusher, a 'nudger' and an independent 'shaker' for each pilot. Stall protection had been introduced in the light of experience with the stalling characteristics of both civil and military British T-tailed jet aircraft, including the loss of a Hawker Siddeley Trident on a test flight over Norfolk when it entered a deep stall. This necessitated satisfying the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) requirement that all passengers could leave within 90 seconds using only half the available exits.
The additional exits were needed for having the aircraft certificated for an increased maximum seating capacity of 150. Dan-Air's examples featured additional emergency doors each side of the rear fuselage as well as a stall-protection system known as a 'stick pusher'. ĭan-Air's original eight Boeing 727-100s, which entered service between 19, differed from overseas-registered aircraft. When Meredith's financial problems worsened and the debenture became due for repayment, Davies and Newman took over the aircraft together with a six-month contract to operate a series of charter flights between Southend and West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport that formed part of the second Little Berlin Airlift. Davies and Newman agreed to take a debenture on Meredith's aircraft in return for extending financial assistance. As a result, Meredith soon found itself in financial difficulties. When Meredith's only aircraft suffered a mishap while taking off from Jerusalem's Atarot Airport on Christmas Eve 1952 that damaged the aircraft's tailwheel, this caused major disruption to the company's business. Meredith was formed in 1952 as a small ad hoccharter operator and flew a single Douglas DC-3 out of Southend Airport, where it also had its head office. Amongst Davies and Newman's clients for whom it acted as an air charter broker was a small airline called Meredith Air Transport. It subsequently diversified into air charter broking from an office at London's Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange. Dan-Air's parent Davies and Newman had been engaged in shipbroking in the City of London since 1922.
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