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The British Overseas Airways Corporation - A History (Hardcover)
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The British Overseas Airways Corporation - A History (Hardcover)
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In a similar style to Comet!: The World's First Jet Airliner and
Boeing Group: A History, Graham Simons presents us with a
colourful, thoroughly engrossing, well-researched and highly
illustrated history of The British Overseas Airways Company, from
its origin in 1940 to its closure in 1974. The scope of the book
takes in the history of the Second World War, examining the ways in
which this conflict shaped the development of the airline. BOAC
kept wartime Britain connected with its colonies and the allied
world, often under enemy fire, and initially with desperate
shortages of long-range aircraft. It played an important role in
the transportation of passengers during an incredibly fraught and
dangerous era. Post-war, jets were brought into the mix and
aircraft types such as the de Havilland Comet saw employment. In
the 1970s, an Act of Parliament saw BOAC merged with BEA, with
effect from 31 March 1974, forming today's British Airways. But the
era of The British Overseas Airways Company marked an important
bridge between wartime services and the contemporary operations
that we recognise today as being part of British Airways'
day-to-day working practices. The era 1940-1974 saw a great deal of
development change the face of flight in a variety of contexts. By
choosing to record the history of BOAC, Graham M. Simons is
confronting an era of ongoing interest to students of aviation and
historians of mid-Twentieth century history.
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