​RETROSPECTIVE: The centenary of international air services

1919 - 0491 Holt Thomas

In a year that marks so many important aviation anniversaries, the month of August has possibly the most significant one of them all. For on 25 August 1919, a small British-built biplane took off from heathland close to where London Heathrow is today, to begin the first-ever daily international passenger ...

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