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Malcolm Turner
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British 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 Turner
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Romancing the Clippers - An excerpt from THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING BOATS by Peter Pigott
https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Juan Trippe’s fascination with maritime tradition was everywhere. “The Clipper was a...
Malcolm Turner
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An 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 Riley
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Review of Sky Talk by Michael Riley
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.
Malcolm Turner
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Sweating 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 Turner
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The 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 Turner
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Hugh 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 Turner
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An extract from: The Golden Age of Flying Boats by Peter Pigott
https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Through the war some 650 BOAC staff were employed at Poole on the flying boat services....
Malcolm Turner
- 7 min
Dan-Air & Air Europe - An extract from Britain's Airline Entrepreneurs
Dan-Air would grow to become one of the best known of British independent airlines and Fred Newman would serve as chairman until 1990.
Malcolm Turner
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Help to enlarge the Speedbird collection
Juke Dillaway is seeking help to buy Rich Mitchell's huge collection of BOAC memorabilia and add it to his own considerable collection....
Malcolm Turner
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Mike Keegan - From BRITAIN'S AIRLINE ETREPRENEURS
https://www.burntash.eu/airline-entrepreneurs Thomas ‘Mike’ Keegan was born in Liverpool in 1925 and, on leaving school, became an...
Malcolm Turner
- 8 min
The Stratocruiser — From IT'S PULL TO GO UP by Jeff Gray
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...
Malcolm Turner
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An 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 Turner
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An excerpt from BOAC and the Golden Age of Flying - The Pilots https://www.burntash.eu/boac
BOAC shone a spotlight on their pilots, and some of them became household names. When Captain Oscar Phillip Jones (better known as O P)...
Malcolm Turner
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An extract from 'It's Pull To Go Up' by Jeff Gray
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...
Malcolm Turner
- 7 min
An extract from Comets and Concordes by Peter Duffey
Introduction Aviation interests and experiences came my way at an early age. Perhaps the first time when I was conscious of the limitless...
Malcolm Turner
- 3 min
The Test Pilots — from De Havilland Comet — The plane that changed the world
Group Captain John Cunningham, who commanded the Comet’s first flight on his 30th birthday, became a household name.
Malcolm Turner
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Garry Halliday — Charter Pilot
If one thing underlines how perceptions of air transport have changed since the mid-20th century, it is the way that airlines are...