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.

* Aquila Airways, a British flying boat operator ( 1948 – 1958 )

* 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.

Cargo consisted of largely British and colonial-manufactured goods.

* British Airways World Cargo ( opb Global Supply, three a / c to be in full BA Cargo scheme )

* IAS Cargo Airlines, a British airline

However, even after the merger, a British Airways European Division, which incorporated the former BEA Mainline operation, the erstwhile Super One-Eleven and Cargo divisions, as well as British Airtours, continued to exist alongside a British Airways Overseas, a British Airways Regional and four other divisions until 1 April 1977 when these were replaced by a unified operating structure organised into a number of departments, including commercial operations, flight operations, engineering, planning, catering and personnel.

* Redcoat Air Cargo, a British cargo airline from 1976 to 1982

The most notable airlines African International Airlines was operating for were Alitalia ( 1985 – 1996 ), and later South African Airways and British Airways World Cargo.

Global Supply Systems now operates a fleet of 3 Boeing 747-8 freighter on dry lease from partner Atlas Air in full British Airways World Cargo livery.

* 1940 – Mike Vickers, British musician and composer ( Manfred Mann )

Some of the first such " fighters " belonged to the " gunbus " series of experimental gun carriers of the British Vickers company that culminated in the Vickers F. B. 5 Gunbus of 1914.

Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin ' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia.

UK | British Vickers machine gun in action near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.

In 1919, the British Westinghouse electrical company was taken over as the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company ; Metrovick.

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers ' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders.

With their steelworking operations also nationalised into British Steel the remnants of Vickers became Vickers plc.

* Vickers Wellington, British medium bomber used in World War II

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

Three former British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Vikings, which Laker had acquired in 1949 as well, were overhauled at ATL's Southend maintenance base and sold on to British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) at a profit.

Holland submarines were also sold to the British Royal Navy through the English armaments company Vickers, and to the Dutch to serve in the Royal Netherlands Navy.

* Vickers Vernon, a British military cargo aircraft of the Interwar period

The history of football in Ferrol is associated to the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors ,< ref >" SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands " ( 1909 ) The Manchester Guardian, 1st February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown ... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain ... Mr A J Campbell ... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard ... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager.

In 1925 the British adopted a new instrument developed by Vickers.

British Commonwealth troops used their standard Lee-Enfield rifle, Bren light machine gun and Vickers medium machine gun.

As well as Saunders-Roe and Vickers ( which combined in 1966 to form the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC )), other commercial craft were developed during the 1960s in the UK by Cushioncraft ( part of the Britten-Norman Group ) and Hovermarine based at Woolston ( the latter being ' Sidewall Hovercraft ', where the sides of the hull projected down into the water to trap the cushion of air with ' normal ' hovercraft skirts at the bow and stern ).

The first purpose-designed fighter aircraft included the British Vickers F. B. 5-machine gun armament was also fitted to several French types, such as the Morane-Saulnier L and N. Initially the German Air Service lagged behind the Allies in this respect with no purpose built fighting aircraft.

Geodesic structural elements were used by Barnes Wallis for British Vickers between the wars and into World War II to form the whole of the fuselage, including its aerodynamic shape.