Malcolm Turner2 minSUNRISE SIGNS LEADING FORENSIC LINGUISTLONDON: 19th April 2021 — SunRise Publishing has acquired The Language Detective by Dr John Olsson. As one of Britain’s leading forensic...
Malcolm Turner2 minBritish United Airways - An extract from: BRITAIN'S AIRLINE ENTREPRENEURS. www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs The new airline would be called British United Airways, a name which the government only agreed to...
Malcolm Turner3 minRomancing the Clippers - An excerpt from THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING BOATS by Peter Pigotthttps://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Juan Trippe’s fascination with maritime tradition was everywhere. “The Clipper was a...
Malcolm Turner2 minAn extract from BOAC AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING.www.burntash.eu/boac In 1932 Imperial Airways approached Theyre Lee-Elliott, one of London’s leading graphic artists and painters, and...
Michael Riley2 minReview of Sky Talk by Michael RileySky Talk distils a wealth of detailed experience from the Golden Age of airline flying that can only be recounted by one who was there.
Malcolm Turner2 minSweating Blood, an extract from Sky Talk by Philip Hogge.Our Britannia turboprop was flying empty – no passengers, only the crew on board. We had left Bermuda well before dawn...
Malcolm Turner3 minThe Jet Age - An extract from BOAC & THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING.In 1952, BOAC would pioneer the single greatest technical advance in airline history, to be followed by tragedy and failure.
Malcolm Turner3 minHugh Dibley, BOAC pilot and racing driver...I joined BOAC in September 1958 under the Pilots Initial Navigation Scheme, which saw me using techniques like astronavigation.
Malcolm Turner3 minAn extract from: The Golden Age of Flying Boats by Peter Pigotthttps://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Through the war some 650 BOAC staff were employed at Poole on the flying boat services....
Malcolm Turner7 minDan-Air & Air Europe - An extract from Britain's Airline EntrepreneursDan-Air would grow to become one of the best known of British independent airlines and Fred Newman would serve as chairman until 1990.
Malcolm Turner1 minHelp to enlarge the Speedbird collectionJuke Dillaway is seeking help to buy Rich Mitchell's huge collection of BOAC memorabilia and add it to his own considerable collection....
Malcolm Turner4 minMike Keegan - From BRITAIN'S AIRLINE ETREPRENEURShttps://www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs Thomas ‘Mike’ Keegan was born in Liverpool in 1925 and, on leaving school, became an...
Malcolm Turner8 minThe Stratocruiser — From IT'S PULL TO GO UP by Jeff Grayhttps://www.burntash.eu/pull-to-go-up The Boeing Stratocruiser was the queen of the skies over the Atlantic. It was advertised and hailed...
Malcolm Turner3 minAn extract from Britain's Airline Entrepreneurs - Silver City Airways https://www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs In 1946, Zinc Corporation, the London-based mining conglomerate, appointed Air Commodore...
Malcolm Turner5 minAn excerpt from BOAC and the Golden Age of Flying - The Pilots https://www.burntash.eu/boacBOAC shone a spotlight on their pilots, and some of them became household names. When Captain Oscar Phillip Jones (better known as O P)...
Malcolm Turner10 minAn extract from 'It's Pull To Go Up' by Jeff Grayhttps://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...
Malcolm Turner7 minAn extract from Comets and Concordes by Peter DuffeyIntroduction Aviation interests and experiences came my way at an early age. Perhaps the first time when I was conscious of the limitless...
Malcolm Turner3 minThe Test Pilots — from De Havilland Comet — The plane that changed the worldGroup Captain John Cunningham, who commanded the Comet’s first flight on his 30th birthday, became a household name.
Malcolm Turner1 minGarry Halliday — Charter PilotIf one thing underlines how perceptions of air transport have changed since the mid-20th century, it is the way that airlines are...