Good morning from Italy!☀️

BOAC Coach
Dinky Toys no. 283
1957-1962
made in England by Meccano

⭐️1-minute video for diecast addicts⭐️

#AvGeek #B747 #BOAC #LHR

The B787 could look quite nice if it was a full BOAC livery 🤷

A BOAC B707 seen here in this photo at New York JFK Airport in February 1962 #avgeeks 📷- Mel Lawrence

New York City, Fly BOAC by Gerry Cranham - November 1967 - buff.ly/3VZh2Sw

Last BOAC Comet service arrives at London Airport (1965)

This was a 40-hour, 8-stop flight. Quite a small aircraft for such a route (c.80 seats), possibly subject to a Foreign Office subsidy as embassies probably main customers.

It passes a VC10, its replacement on many routes.

Does anyone know what’s happening to the BOAC building now All Saints seem to have left ? ⁦Niall Murphy⁩ ⁦Paul Sweeney⁩

Now then aviation Twitter, any recommendations for some 70s/80s commercial aviation fiction? (not 'Pan Am Profits' or 'BA Customer Service Excellence'). Like:

Max Kingsley-Jones John Strickland Tim Byatt Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAc Andy Foster Jon Ostrower A Little VC10derness James Oates

C-4 Argonaut of East African Airways boarding at Nairobi (1958)

The C-4 was a RR Merlin-engined version of the DC-4 built by Canadair - much faster than the latter, but even noisier.

BOAC provided the EAA aircraft and crews in the early days, hence the uniforms and basic scheme

same

Guy Burden Max Kingsley-Jones John Strickland Captain Brent 🇬🇧 BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 Andy Foster Jon Ostrower A Little VC10derness James Oates How about this…..purchased as a child because of the cover 😄
And the story does indeed start around a BA B707.

Laker Airways (Skytrain !)
Monarch
Pan Am
BOAC

i love my country

Ai vẽ boác kao thế là sao?
Giống tên t.rộm c.hó ở phương nào ?
Mỏ hô, má cao, mắt thâm độc
Giả dạng dân Nam, hắn chính tàu !
🤔🤔🤔 vpt /// 14.05.2022

just came across a last fm profile where the person has 4k scrobbles of melve omfg

#ThisDay 1952 - BOAC begins first passenger service with jets (London-Rome route).

Peter Stefanovic There has to be a balance between public & private ownership.
BOAC & British Leyland needed to go private to compete on a world stage. However, critical infrastructure should always be in the public domain - water, energy, health, rail, roads, army, air traffic control, etc.

Circa 1952
BOAC (British Airways) crew getting a ride to the terminal at Dum Dum (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International) Airport, Calcutta.
I have been closely watching India's gradual development since 1947.
Every decade, we felt the development, with pride.
At least I did.

snoot