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The Speedbird emblem.. The Speedbird is the stylised emblem of a bird in flight designed in 1932 by Theyre Lee-Elliott as the corporate logo for Imperial Airways.It became a design classic [1] and was used by the airline and its successors – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British Airways – for 52 years.
A Boeing 747-400 wearing the Chelsea Rose livery takes off past two other 747s in the Chatham Dockyard livery, c. 2002. In 1997 British Airways (BA) adopted a new livery.One part of this was a newly stylised version of the British Airways "Speedbird" logo, the "Speedmarque", but the major change was the introduction of tail-fin art.
BOAC's speedbird, used as a logo for BOAC and its successor British Airways. Source Cropped from File:British Overseas Airways Corporation (logo).svg. Date 1932 Author Theyre Lee-Elliott. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
The new logo featured two seagulls formed into a bigger seagull, representing the spirit of Greece and the airline's values. The new logo was inspired by Greek sky and seas, historical architecture and the country's design heritage. [4] Aerolíneas Argentinas: A condor. Aeromexico: An eagle knight. Air Arabia: A seagull. Air Lithuania: A crane.
British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH.
File information Description Logo of British Overseas Airways Corporation. Source British Overseas Airways Corporation Date 1932 Author Imperial Airways / BOAC / Theyre Lee-Elliott (died in 1988, see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:British Overseas Airways Corporation (logo).svg)
British Airways Ltd was a British airline company operating in Europe in the period 1935–1939. It was formed in 1935 by the merger of Spartan Air Lines Ltd, United Airways Ltd (no relation to the US carrier United Airlines), and Hillman's Airways. Its corporate emblem was a winged lion.
BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near Mount Fuji in Japan on 5 March 1966, with the loss of all 113 passengers and 11 crew members.