Flight Image of the Day: Historical Archives

Berlin's Tempelhof Airport

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Stuart

on October 31, 2008 10:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

© Günter Wicker/Berlin Airports

Eighty-five years after being designated as Berlin Airport, the German capital's historic downtown Tempelhof Airport has closed with the departure of its last scheduled service and that of two vintage aircraft.

A selection of images of the airport from the beginning to the present day can be seen on their website.

If you have any memories of using the airport or know what is happening to it next, why not share them on AirSpace.

On this day in 1909: John Moore-Brabazon flies first UK circular mile

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Stuart

on October 30, 2008 3:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon.jpg

On October 30th, 1909, J.T.C Moore- Brabazon won £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper by flying a Short Brothers aircraft for a circular mile.

Concorde's last commercial flight anniversary

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Barbara Cockburn

on October 24, 2008 11:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Concorde made it's last commercial flight five years ago today. Here Concorde G-BOAF is seen taking off from London Heathrow on a ferry flight back to retire at Filton, the aircraft's place of birth.

Flight published a Concorde timeline and I found it in the archives...

Image courtesy Paul Dopson/APG Photography

On this day... in 1986

By

Barbara Cockburn

on October 21, 2008 12:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

British Airways was offered up for sale by the British government.

This archive entry is actually from November 1986 reporting that the UK Department of Transport has announced that British Airways will be privatised "in the early weeks of 1987".

The announcement of BA's privatisation was beset with hold-ups including an anti-trust case in which the US and the UK were in continuous disagreement over laws affecting air services between the two countries.

Also in August of this year BA ordered 16 Boeing 747s, as pictured.