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Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. Passengers were typically businessmen or colonial administrators, and most flights carried about 20 passengers or ...
From 1921 to 1924 British air transport companies were able to obtain subsidies from government and from 1924 increasing amounts were given to Imperial Airways. The book contains total British subsidies to air transport companies and traces air routes to Africa, Australia, India and North America.
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum , [ 2 ] Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft , military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings. [ 3 ]
After retirement by British Airways it was donated to the society and flown to Duxford in 1993. Displayed in the British Airways Landor Associates livery and named County of Dorset. [7] BAC Super VC10: G-ASGC Former BOAC and British Airways aircraft, painted in BOAC-Cunard markings which it wore when it was operated by the 1960s' joint venture ...
The Imperial Airways Empire Route was originally established on the Northern Shore of the Persian Gulf, with Imperial Airways seaplanes landing off Hengam Island, but the agreement to use the route made with the Persian Government lapsed in 1932 when the Persian Government attempted to use the continuation of rights to the facility as leverage to gain British recognition for the Persian claim ...
While the birth of Imperial Airways had been a boon to British air travel, what turned it into a shining beacon was Croydon’s stunning Neoclassical airport complex, opened in January 1928.
Handley Page H.P.42. In 1928, Imperial Airways invited submissions from the British aviation industry for a replacement of its de Havilland Hercules and Armstrong Whitworth Argosy landplane airliners for use on its major long distance routes across the Empire.
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