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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.
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.
The aircraft would replace some of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747-400s. [23] Options for 18 Boeing 787 aircraft, part of the original contract signed in 2007, have been converted into firm orders for delivery between 2017 and 2021. [24] On 26 June 2013, British Airways took delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
British Airways Flight 5390 was a flight from Birmingham Airport in England for Málaga Airport in Spain. On 10 June 1990, the BAC One-Eleven 528FL suffered an explosive decompression . While the aircraft was flying over Didcot , England, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ...
The seat is ultra-wide at 36.5 inches and can lie flat with a bed length of 6 feet 7 inches. British Airways describes the 60-inch curved wall as providing a "cocooned" space that improves privacy ...
Speedbird in the BOAC logo ca. 1965 On the nose of a BOAC Armstrong Whitworth Ensign refuelling in Accra during WW2. The Speedbird on a BOAC liveried Leyland Atlantean.. With the creation of BOAC in 1939 the logo was retained, continuing to appear on the noses of aircraft throughout World War II despite the military-style camouflage that had replaced the airline livery.
Coming in 2026, British Airways' new first class has a large wall featuring the airline's logo. The curved design of the suite and lamp are supposed to be nods to Concorde — arguably the heyday ...
The flight took off at about 9:24 p.m. on 20 February 2005. When the aircraft, a four-engine Boeing 747-436, was around 300 feet (91 m) into the air, flames burst out of its number 2 engine, a result of engine surge. The pilots shut the engine down. Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan.