Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.

The airline British Caledonian, named a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ( G-BHDI ) after Robert the Bruce.

Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favour of French subjects.

* November 30 – British Caledonian Airways Ltd. ( BCal ) is formed.

* February 5 – An observer in Wilmington, North Carolina reports to the Edinburgh newspaper Caledonian Mercury that three ships were seized by British men-of-war on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

A three-day inquiry in May 1983 rejected the application after British Airways ( BA ), British Caledonian and BAA objected.

* 1970: Second extension of Gatwick's runway by to to permit non-stop jet operations to the US east coast with a full payload and full-range / payload operations by British United and Caledonian BAC One-Eleven 500s.

* September 1971: Caledonian //< nowiki > BUA </ nowiki > became British Caledonian ( BCal ).

* British Caledonian, airline

The VC10 was built and first flown at Brooklands in 1964 and after airline service with British United and later British Caledonian Airways, in 1974 it became the official VIP transport for the Sultan of Oman until retired and flown back to Brooklands on 6 July 1987 and donated to Brooklands Museum by the Sultan of Oman's Royal Flight.

In 1975 British Airports Authority airport director John Mulkern, British Caledonian Airways chairman Adam Thomson and British Rail's Southern Region regional manager Bob Reid, formed the Gatwick Liaison Group to discuss matters of mutual interest.

* Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom, began as the charter arm of British Caledonian

As soon as Court Line began diverting Horizon customers onto its planes, British Caledonian ( BCal ) threatened having Horizon compulsorily wound up if Court Line did not agree to settle Horizon's outstanding debts of over £ 100, 000.

These included Britannia Airways, British Airtours, British United, Caledonian, Caledonian / BUA / British Caledonian, Capitol International Airways, Overseas National Airways, Saturn Airways, Trans International Airlines, Transamerica Airlines and World Airways.

* 1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2. 5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people.

** Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.

* November 6 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2. 5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport, killing 45 people ( the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record ).

* January 8 – Kegworth Air Disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport, leaving 47 dead.

* City of Birmingham, a former British Airways Boeing 747-200, registration G-BDXJ

* de Havilland Canada-former Canadian unit of the British de Havilland Aircraft Company and later as part of Boeing

* Boeing Washington, British designation for US Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber

* 28 May 1982: For the first time, Pope John Paul II set foot on British soil at Gatwick after disembarking from an Alitalia Boeing 727-200 Advanced that had just arrived from Rome.

* 2 June 1982: At the end of his first visit to the British Isles, Pope John Paul II departed Gatwick on board a BCal Boeing 707 bound for Rome.

The airline has operated at least three models each from Douglas, Fokker and Boeing, in addition to the de Havilland Heron and British Aerospace 146.

( The British Airwothiness Authorities insisted on tail-fin modifications which Boeing applied to all 707s ).

BOAC's successor British Airways later became the largest Boeing customer outside North America.

In 2010, British Airways, in conjunction with English Heritage, named their last Boeing 757 ' Stokesay Castle '.

* On 22 June 2009, it was revealed that Iraqi Airways had struck a deal with British aviation authorities to resume direct Baghdad-London ( Gatwick ) flights ; the flights were supposed to begin on 8 August 2009 using a Boeing 737-400 leased from Tor Air and should eventually get the Airbus A320-232 operating the route ; this has failed to happen and there has been no news since.

On 24 June 1982 a British Airways Boeing 747-236B ( Flight 9 ) flew through the ash cloud from the eruption of Mount Galunggung, Indonesia resulting in the failure of all four engines.

In later years, PSA operated Boeing 727-200, McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and British Aerospace BAe 146 jetliners from the airfield.

There was also a strong nationalism in purchasing policy, such that the Boeing and Douglas products became closely associated with Pan Am, while BOAC ordered British made Comets.

Commercial realities dictated exceptions, however, as few airlines could risk missing out on a superior product: American Airlines ordered the pioneering Comet ( but later cancelled when the Comet ran into fatigue problems ), Canadian, British and European airlines could not ignore the better operating economics of the Boeing 707 and the DC-8, while some American airlines ordered the Caravelle.

Other jet airlines that served Fresno in the past included Pacific Air Lines with Boeing 727-100s, Hughes Airwest ( previously Air West ) with Douglas DC-9-10s and DC-9-30s, Pacific Southwest Airlines ( PSA ) with Boeing 727-100, 727-200, 737-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD 80s, Western Airlines with Boeing 727-200, 737-200 and 737-300 service, Delta Airlines with Boeing 727-200 and 737-300 aircraft, Continental Airlines with Boeing 737-200 and 737-300 flights, Air Cal with Boeing 737-200 service and Pacific Express with British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jets.

* May 24-The last service by a British Airways Boeing 707, from Cairo, Egypt to London, is performed.

At the ministry, he was involved in BOAC's order of Boeing 707 aircraft from the USA, against his own recommendation that they should buy a British aircraft, the Super VC10.

View of the port ( left ) number 1 & 2 Pratt & Whitney JT3D jet engines of a British Caledonian Boeing 707, June 1975.

In its ongoing negotiations with the BOT, Caledonian cited these findings as evidence that there was no suitable British alternative to the 707 for the envisaged role.

Boeing 707 # 707-320C | Boeing 707-338C G-BDLM of British Caledonian, Caledonian's successor, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi Embakasi in February 1976

The hijacking of El Al Flight 219, a Boeing 707 with 158 people on board, fails when hijacker Patrick Argüello is shot and killed after injuring one crew member and his partner Leila Khaled is subdued and turned over to British authorities in London ; two other PFLP members prevented from boarding El Al Flight 219 instead hijack Pan American World Airways Flight 93, a Boeing 747 flying from Brussels, Belgium, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with 153 people on board, which they force to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, and then on to Cairo, Egypt.

* TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt am Main ( a Boeing 707 ) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich-Kloten Airport ( a Douglas DC-8 ) landed at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarka, Jordan formerly used as a British Royal Air Force base.

* The hijacking of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam ( another 707 ) was foiled: hijacker Patrick Argüello was shot and killed, and his partner Leila Khaled was subdued and turned over to British authorities in London.

The same year, British Airtours ' last Boeing 707 made its final revenue flight.

The Zimbabwean government stepped in to save Affretair from collapse by facilitating a multi-million dollar deal with a British aviation company, Aviation Star, which leased a Boeing 707 to replace the no-longer compliant DC-8.

Planes featured were American Boeings, like the Pan Am 707, but also notable British models like the Bristol Britannia ( with " British & Commonwealth " decals ) and the Vickers Viscount.