ospalh quoted Day of Judgment by Jack Higgins (Simon Vaughn, #3)
June 26, 1963. JFK’s triumphal visit to divided Berlin is about to trigger catastrophe for …
Content warning Aviation history nitpicking
(The plane they are using) was a Hawker Siddeley 125 and not long from the factory.
— Day of Judgment by Jack Higgins (Simon Vaughn, #3) (Page 87)
This is one of two points where the start of chapter 6 is confusing. So, the timing of this novel is quite important. It is set in May 1963. Not long from the factory? That is an understatement. By some minus 14 months.
»The first production-standard aircraft performed its first flight on 12 February 1963.« I guess the author stopped reading after getting this information. He probably didn’t know how »first flight« works. ... »The first delivery to a customer took place on 10 September 1964« Ah. You can’t just charter a jet in Berlin that only started flight testing some three months before in England.