Malcolm Turner Sep 19 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. A...
Malcolm Turner Aug 30 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 Aug 24 1 min 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. H...
Malcolm Turner Aug 12 4 min 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 appren...
Malcolm Turner Aug 7 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 Aug 6 3 min 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 Gr...
Malcolm Turner Aug 2 5 min 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) r...
Malcolm Turner Jul 28 10 min 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 w...
Malcolm Turner Jul 25 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 Jul 18 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.
