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* Aquila Airways, a British flying boat operator ( 1948 – 1958 )
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Aquila and Airways
By 1957, BAS's airline subsidiaries included Air Kruise, Aquila Airways, Britavia, the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and the original Manx Airlines, apart from Silver City Airways itself.
Bucking the trend, in 1948 Aquila Airways was founded to serve destinations that were still inaccessible to land-based aircraft.
The flying boats of Aquila Airways were also chartered for one-off trips, usually to deploy troops where scheduled services did not exist or where there were political considerations.
Despite being the pinnacle of flying boat development none were sold, though Aquila Airways reportedly attempted to buy them.
* November 15 – After taking off from Englands Southampton Water, an Aquila Airways Short Solent flying boat develops engine trouble and crashes on the Isle of Wight while attempting to return.
* September 30 – Britain's last flying boat is withdrawn from commercial service when Aquila Airways terminates its service on the Southampton -- Funchal ( Madeira ) route.
These were supplemented by the flying boat operations of Aquila Airways, an early post-war British independent airline that became an operating division of British Aviation Services.
Aquila Airways Short Solent | Solent 3, G-AKNU, Sydney taking-off from Funchal.
Aquila Airways was a Southampton, Hampshire based British independent airline, formed on 18 May 1948.
Aquila was founded by Barry Aikman, initially using two converted Royal Air Force Short Sunderland flying boats, ex-British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ), for freight work.
Short Sunderland 3 G-AGER Hadfield served Aquila Airways from 1948 to 1956.
Aquila obtained an association agreement with British European Airways ( BEA ) under which they were permitted to operate scheduled services from Southampton to Lisbon and Madeira.
Aquila Airways Short Solent 4 G-ANAJ City of Funchal at Berth 50, Port of Southampton | Southampton Docks in 1955
In 1954 the British Aviation Services Group took control of Aquila Airways, the last commercial flying boat operator in the United Kingdom.
During the later 1950s, Aquila Airways faced increasing competition from land based aircraft and being unable to obtain replacement flying boats ( offers to purchase the prototype Princess flying boats having been rebuffed ), the company ceased operations in 1958.
* Aquila Airways at the Aviation Safety Network Database
Aquila and British
* Angus Aquila, a British aircraft
Aquila and flying
It is bordered ( clockwise from north ) by Vulpecula the fox, Sagitta the arrow, Aquila the eagle, Aquarius the water-carrier, Equuleus the foal and Pegasus the flying horse.
In addition, three Aquila flying boats were used during the airlift.
Maj. Ramsay D. Potts flying " The Duchess " and Maj. George S. Brown aboard " Queenie ", encountering heavy smoke over Columbia Aquila, would take two additional elements of the 93rd and successfully drop their payloads over the Astra Romana, Unirea Orion, and Columbia Aquila refineries.
Aquila and 1948
Some had already been dismantled in La Spezia between 1948 and 1955, including the flagship aircraft carrier " Aquila ".
Aquila and –
* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
* Aquila Suite – 12 Arpeggio Concert Etudes for Solo Piano, a piano composition
* Genesis in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and English – The critical text of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew with ancient versions ( Masoretic, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, Peshitta, Septuagint, Vetus Latina, Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion ) and English translation for each version in parallel.
The Perdonanza Celestiniana festival is celebrated in L ' Aquila every 28 – 29 August in commemoration of this event.
The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.
* February 2 – An earthquake hits the town of L ' Aquila, Italy.
* June 2 – Battle of L ' Aquila: Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.
Terni railway station is part of the Rome – Ancona national rail line, and is also a junction station for two secondary lines, the Terni – Sulmona railway ( which links Terni with L ' Aquila ) and the Terni – Sansepolcro railway ( FCU ) ( which serves Perugia ).
The effects on the interior have been impoverishment and a demographic ageing, reflected by an activity rate in the province of L ' Aquila which is the lowest of the provinces in Abruzzo – accompanied by geological degradation as a result of the absence of conservation measures.
* Train Rome – Sulmona – Pescara: Pescara-Rome railway line is along the railway line Bologna-Bari on the Adriatic other line is important because through the Tyrrhenian coast, passing through the provinces of Pescara, Chieti and L ' Aquila and ends the path to Roma Tiburtina station.
The line is the interchanges of railway lines Rome-Pescara and Sulmona – L ' Aquila – Rieti – Terni.
* Sangritana ( Lanciano – Castel di Sangro ): The infrastructure in question are an important transition between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas, as in Pescara station meets the respective points of connection of the FS Bologna – Bari and Pescara – Rome, while that of Sulmona, L ' Aquila lines FS – Terni and Sulmona – Carpinone.
* Highway A24 Roma – Aquila – Teramo, was built in the 70s and connects Rome with Lazio and more specifically to the Abruzzo Teramo via L ' Aquila, performs an important liaison function of the region, both Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic, due to the presence of several knots of connection roads and highways.
Airways and British
International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.
* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
* British Airways, flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways.
Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.
Over this period, except for the war years, during which he served with the United States Air Force, he developed British Guiana Airways Ltd. ( registered 27 May, 1938 ) and operating regular internal services since 1939.
On 15 July 1955, the Government purchased British Guiana Airways.
Heathrow is the primary hub for British Airways and the primary operating base for Virgin Atlantic Airways.
* 1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be sucked from the cockpit, no one dies.
* 1982 – " The Jakarta Incident ": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
* 2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities.
Other airlines operating flights to and from Luxembourg include British Airways, KLM, SAS, Swiss European Air Lines, and TAP Portugal.
Even though Mauritius was a British colony, the British Overseas Airways Corporation ( B. O. A. C ) began to come to Mauritius only from 1962.
The Mauritian government, British Airways, Air France and Air India were the initial stakeholders in this initiative, with Rogers an active supporter.
* British Mediterranean Airways, an airline in the United Kingdom
* 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
* 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport.
* 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
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