Author: Charles Woodley

BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy. It began operation...

For over seventy years the name Swissair stood for all things Swiss on the airways. The flying arrow emblem of Switzerlands national airline repres...

British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying training school into a schedu...

Today, Heathrow is a major transportation crossroads, with thousands of flights each year conveying millions of passengers to all parts of the glob...

In 1976 a Jersey-based air taxi operator purchased two elderly Dakota aircraft for cargo charters as Air Atlantique. Thus began the saga of an airl...

The end of the Second World War not only brought peace to a war-weary population but also delivered a plethora of surplus transport aircraft, crew ...

The Gatwick story really began when two young men purchased a plot of land near Gatwick Racecourse to develop as a flying field. From these humble ...

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of todays ai...