BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧

✈️ Welcome to the iconic British airline BOAC (1940-1974) | #BOAC #Aviation #Nostalgia |

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

My two BOAC books - still available from Amazon.
#aviation #pilots #flightattendant #VintageAirlines #aircraft #BOAC

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Public executions by firing squad being live streamed as entertainment? WTF is wrong with the USA? Answer": Trump & his administration.
#FiringSquad

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

But thanks @TrueVC10derness, the record you cite looks solid enough! 👍

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

@TrueVC10derness In Ian Colvin's book, Flight 777, a historian writes the opposite - hence my question!

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

@TrueVC10derness In Ian Colvin's book, Flight 777, a historian writes the opposite - hence my question!

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

A research question for my next book! Hopefully someone has the answer.🤞
BOAC Flight 777 (June 1943) was shot down, killing actor Leslie Howard & others. Which base did the Nazi fighters come from? My research suggests 2 names: Bordeaux & Kerhouin- Bastard. Which is correct?

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

They say never work with animals or children! As #BOAC cabin crew, we did it all the time! Buy not necessarily with lion cubs!

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Putin doing his best to have a war with NATO!
#StopRussianAggression

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Two F-16AM Fighting Falcons with the Romanian Air Force were scrambled early Thursday to investigate an unidentified naval surface drone spotted near the Neptun Deep Project, a major European offshore natural gas field off the coast of Romania in the Black Sea.

On approach, the drone - believed to be of Russian origin - was determined to be an active threat, with one of the F-16s using its M61A1 Vulcan Six-Barrel Gatling Gun to target and destroy the explosive-laden surface drone, roughly 80NM east of the Romanian Black Sea coastal city of Constanța.

Romanian President Nicușor Dan blamed the incident on Russia, stating in a post online: “I strongly condemn the intensification of these types of irresponsible incidents on the part of the Russian Federation.” While European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described it as part of an “escalating campaign of threats” against the European Union.

[My Favourite Bench @MyFaveBench]

Love the shadow of Sherlock 😊
#Benchlove #London #TFL

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

This is why I’m paranoid about selecting the channel my microphone will go out on, and whether or not my interphone is engaged.

You can get a “stuck mike”, where the button that allows your microphone to go out on whatever channel you’ve selected doesn’t release & keeps sending your microphone out after you let go of the button / trigger.

Just a whole lot of opportunity for embarrassment.

I never make a PA using my headset. There is a microphone on the center console that only goes to the cabin PA system, so it the only thing I ever use to make PAs.

Not that I talk that way about FAs or anything, but this kind of thing happens with some frequency & I’d like to be sure it doesn’t happen to me.

[Doug Crown @Bellagiotime]

Kelly Johnson with his Masterpiece.

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Andy Burnham wants the country to help abolish rough sleeping. Great idea, but how about first stopping the boats and providing them with accommodation?
#StopTheBoats

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Look what turned up in the post this morning. Result! #BOAC

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Just iconic! Apologies, but no idea where and when, or even who the photographer was! #BOAC

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

🥵 As another heatwave settles on the UK, here's some appropriate BOAC art work!
#BOAC

[Robert Thornton 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @RobertThornton_]

#BOAC the iconic British airline, commenced operations on 1 April 1940, and that's no joke!

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Happy New Year! 🍾 Times Square, New York, c 1963.

[Daniel J. Devane 🇬🇧 @DanielJDevane]

The National Anthem and three cheers for His Majesty The King bring this year’s Festival of Remembrance to a close.

[old royalty👑 @oldroyalty1]

Princess Elizabeth lying a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, 11 days before her wedding, 1947

[The Tower of London @TowerOfLondon]

Getting up close to the poppies at the Tower of London 🌺

Our commemorative #TowerPoppies display is made up of almost 30,000 poppies and marks the sacrifices made by so many during the Second World War.

The Tower Remembers
📆 Until 11 Nov 2025
Poppies on loan from the @I_W_M

[BOAC Heritage 🇬🇧 @Fly_BOAC]

Lest we forget all those who gave their tomorrow for our today. #RemembranceSunday

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

The elegance of air travel in the 1950s. Rare footage of BOAC's Monarch Service, the world's first non-stop transatlantic jet flight.