The Prince’s New ‘Plane (1932)

A new DH Fox Moth (not a Puss Moth as per the title card) for the future Edward Vlll gets a test flight by Hubert Broad.

Great rendition by Archive Sketcher
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BOAC Monarch Service aboard a Comet 4 (c.1958)

Monarch was available on transatlantic flights only.

The cold poached salmon featured on menus a lot at that time.

Don’t fancy the dry-looking leg of grouse with what looks like a few Walkers Crisps and soggy-looking asparagus…😝

London Airport at the dawn of The Jet Age (1958).

All the pistons & turboprops give an idea of what a novelty the Comet must have been at the start.

BOAC’s Monarch Service departs to New York’s Idlewild, seen off by our saluting dispatcher.

Avis Car Rentals at Heathrow (c.1967)

Hadn’t realised they did chauffeuring (🇺🇸limo service) as well.

The reps in their red uniforms resemble the GlamCabs drivers in Carry On Cabby (1963)

The head of Avis UK at that time later became a big🧀 in the airline industry…

Imperial Airways route map as designed by Harry Beck (of London Underground map fame) in 1935. Not sure why it didn't catch on! 🤔 Historic Croydon Airport

Captain Brent 🇬🇧 Crossed it many times. Widebody airliners are prohibited from stopping on the bridge. Not because of any weight issues… but because if they were to have to evacuate whilst on the bridge, the slides would likely overhang the edge and people would fall onto the road below. Hence

Northwest Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser at New York’s Idlewild, crossing a bridge over the Van Wyck Expressway (1955)

Completed in 1949, this was the first aircraft bridge in the world.

A rocket-assisted Canberra pushes the world altitude record to 70,000 feet (1957).

And it flew out of Luton (seriously!)

You couldn't make it up...

Who's nicked the dining room chairs?? 🤔

Air traffic control operators at Sheremetyevo Airport
in the Moscow region of the USSR during 1961.

Dealing with an inflight technical problem on a BEA Trident (1971).

Captain Ron Gillman & his crew help resolve the issue (& any knock-on problems) with ‘Beatech’ via HF…