LONDON: 19th April 2021 — SunRise Publishing has acquired The Language Detective by Dr John Olsson. As one of Britain’s leading forensic...

www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs The new airline would be called British United Airways, a name which the government only agreed to...

https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Juan Trippe’s fascination with maritime tradition was everywhere. “The Clipper was a...

www.burntash.eu/boac In 1932 Imperial Airways approached Theyre Lee-Elliott, one of London’s leading graphic artists and painters, and...

Sky Talk distils a wealth of detailed experience from the Golden Age of airline flying that can only be recounted by one who was there.

Our Britannia turboprop was flying empty – no passengers, only the crew on board. We had left Bermuda well before dawn...

In 1952, BOAC would pioneer the single greatest technical advance in airline history, to be followed by tragedy and failure.

I joined BOAC in September 1958 under the Pilots Initial Navigation Scheme, which saw me using techniques like astronavigation.

https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Through the war some 650 BOAC staff were employed at Poole on the flying boat services....

Dan-Air would grow to become one of the best known of British independent airlines and Fred Newman would serve as chairman until 1990.

Juke Dillaway is seeking help to buy Rich Mitchell's huge collection of BOAC memorabilia and add it to his own considerable collection....

https://www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs Thomas ‘Mike’ Keegan was born in Liverpool in 1925 and, on leaving school, became an...

https://www.burntash.eu/pull-to-go-up The Boeing Stratocruiser was the queen of the skies over the Atlantic. It was advertised and hailed...

https://www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs In 1946, Zinc Corporation, the London-based mining conglomerate, appointed Air Commodore...

BOAC shone a spotlight on their pilots, and some of them became household names. When Captain Oscar Phillip Jones (better known as O P)...

https://www.burntash.eu/pull-to-go-up In early December we made our first attack on Berlin in G for George. We didn’t know it then, but...

Introduction Aviation interests and experiences came my way at an early age. Perhaps the first time when I was conscious of the limitless...

Group Captain John Cunningham, who commanded the Comet’s first flight on his 30th birthday, became a household name.

If one thing underlines how perceptions of air transport have changed since the mid-20th century, it is the way that airlines are...