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Raw unused footage of immediate aftermath of the G-ARWE accident at Heathrow, 8 April 1968. This would have been taken by a resident airport press agency cameraman. Normally these covered arriving VIPs etc, but were also well positioned to cover any accidents ⬇️🧵. #OTD #BOAC

Glasgow’s Renfrew Airport (c.1960) Substantial infrastructure with a modern terminal unfortunately located on a restricted site between Renfrew & Glasgow Handling 1.5m pax PA (2nd in🇬🇧) on closure (1966). M8 motorway follows line of main runway, Tesco stands on site of terminal

A shell-shocked Captain Charles ‘Cliff’ Taylor & his crew are paraded for a press call immediately after the accident. Future Concorde captain John Hutchinson (back then an Acting First Officer) is second from right. #OTD

News item with an excellent demonstration of the flight deck actions which led to the stall & crash of BEA Trident G-ARPI at Staines, Middlesex on 18 June 1972. This was broadcast after the release of the official AAIB report in May 1973. #OTD #trident #disaster #staines

Happier days at Air India 🇮🇳 - stewardesses aboard Boeing 707-437 VT-DNZ 'Nangaparbat' arriving into London (1962). Ground handling courtesy of BOAC & their long articulated buses. VT-DNZ would serve the airline for 25 years, before being broken up at Bombay in 1987.

New Jet All Set (1959) A £0.5m wooden mock-up of a VC10 under construction at Weybridge, along with a look at the Vanguard production line. Despite the great hopes expressed here the total combined production run of both types was less than 100.

AI Animated photo of an origional colourised photo of airship R101

Happy birthday - as would have been - wonderful Amy Johnson, born this day, 1903. Heroic pilot who lost her life during #WorldWarTwo First woman to fly solo from England to Australia (in 1930) in a second-hand biplane with no radio & very basic maps. 💪🛫

AI Animated photo airship R101

Silver Street, Bedford 1929. Airship R101 Ai animated photo.

Our latest internal Flt Ops newsletter has a small but significant piece recording the retirement of our last Hamble trained pilot from BA. Known formally as the College of Air Training (CAT), it was the main pilot training facility for BOAC/BEA/BA in the 60/70s. End of an era.

RIP Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (1931-2025) ex-RAF & BOAC pilot. Regardless of one’s political persuasion, it is depressing that most of today’s generation of politicians have only ever known politics (university>think tank>bag carrier>safe seat) with no grounding in the real 🌍