Malcolm Turner Dec 15, 2020 2 min 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 Nov 19, 2020 3 min 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 Oct 31, 2020 2 min 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 Oct 19, 2020 2 min 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 Oct 17, 2020 2 min 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 Oct 8, 2020 3 min 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 Oct 2, 2020 3 min 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 Sep 19, 2020 3 min 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 Aug 30, 2020 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.
