BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS (EPHEMERA)
British European Airways - Viking Airliner
London, England: British European Airways, 1948. Pamphlet. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format pamphlet (one sheet folded four times) (16" x 14"). The pamphlet is is Very Good condition and folds out to show the different parts of the airplane interior, along with some small shots of different locations the airplane travels. The pamphlet is in generally clean, bright condition, though there is some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners. "Having established its main operating base at Northolt, BEA operated its first service from Heathrow in April 1950; by late 1954, all Northolt operations had moved to Heathrow, which remained the airline's main operating base until the merger with BOAC in 1974. During 1952, BEA carried its millionth passenger, and by the early 1960s it had become the Western world's fifth-biggest passenger-carrying airline and the biggest outside the United States. In 1950, BEA operated the world's first turbine-powered commercial air service with Vickers' Viscount 630 prototype, from London to Paris. The airline entered the jet age in 1960 with de Havilland's DH106 Comet 4B. On 1 April 1964, it became the first to operate the DH121 Trident; on 10 June 1965, a BEA Trident 1C performed the world's first automatic landing during a scheduled commercial air service. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics British European Airways Viking Airliner BEA