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be introduced while retaining turboprop aircraft as the mainstay of the company's inventory for the foreseeable future. In July 1956, BEA had announced what it called "outline requirements" for a short-haul "second-generation jet airliner", to work alongside its turboprop fleet. It would carry a payload of some 20000 lb or some 70 passengers up to 1000 mi, weigh about 100000 lb, use 6000 ft runways, cruise at a very high speed of 610 to 620 mph, and have "more than two engines". According to aviation author Derek Woods, BEA "wanted something

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