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    The Speedbird is the stylised emblem of a bird in flight designed in 1932 by Theyre Lee-Elliott as the corporate logo for Imperial Airways. It became...
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  • numbers fly close to each other, e.g., KLM 645 and KLM 649 or Speedbird 446 and Speedbird 664. The flight number is published in an airline's public timetable...
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  • completed in June 1998 to replace British Airways' previous head office, Speedbird House, located in Technical Block C on the grounds of Heathrow. British...
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    Concorde (redirect from Speedbird One)
    Concorde (/ˈkɒŋkɔːrd/) is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British...
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    British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, was a scheduled British Airways flight from...
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  • Aircraft type Boeing 707-465 Operator BOAC IATA flight No. BA712 Call sign Speedbird 712 Registration G-ARWE Flight origin London Heathrow Airport Middlesex...
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    British Airways IATA flight No. BA5390 ICAO flight No. BAW5390 Call sign SPEEDBIRD 5390 Registration G-BJRT Flight origin Birmingham Airport, United Kingdom...
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  • and equipment were marked with combinations of that title and/or the Speedbird symbol and/or the Union Flag. BOAC inherited Imperial Airways' flying...
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    BAW646). For example, British Airways flight 75 would use the call sign Speedbird Seven–Five, since Speed-bird is the telephony designator for British Airways...
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    Victoria Terminal in London. Its international division was headquartered at Speedbird House by Heathrow Airport, while its European division was headquartered...
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    BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near...
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    British Airways IATA flight No. BA38 ICAO flight No. BAW38 Call sign SPEEDBIRD 38 Registration G-YMMM Flight origin Beijing Capital International Airport...
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    Prior to the opening of Waterside, the airline's head office was the Speedbird House at London Heathrow Airport. An office of American Airlines is located...
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    connected with their trading name. For example, British Airways uses a Speedbird call-sign, named after the logo of one of its predecessors, BOAC, while...
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    One part of this was a newly stylised version of the British Airways "Speedbird" logo, the "Speedmarque", but the major change was the introduction of...
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    on his design and creation of a modified 2002 Ford Thunderbird called Speedbird, and due to his work building Ron Whiteside's 2003 Ridler-winning '34...
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    their written counterparts. An example of an audio call sign would be 'Speedbird 832', instead of the written 'BAW832'. This is used to reduce the chance...
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    British Airways IATA flight No. BA2069 ICAO flight No. BAW2069 Call sign SPEEDBIRD 2069 Registration G-BNLM Flight origin Gatwick Airport, Horley, United...
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  • Other Airways Flying Club British Airways ethnic liveries Fleet Oneworld "Speedbird" List of airline holding companies Heathrow Terminal 3 Speedwing World...
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  • domestic (UK internal) British Airways flights - international flights use Speedbird Fit Shuttle, the station wagon version of Honda Fit Honda Shuttle, the...
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  • Guinea-Bissau BAV Bay Aviation Ltd BAY AIR Bangladesh BA BAW British Airways SPEEDBIRD United Kingdom BAX Best Aero Handling Ltd Russia BAY Bravo Airways BRAVOAVIANCA...
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    the central columns features patterns derived from the British Airways Speedbird logo, originally designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott in 1932. The station building...
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    Stratocruiser Stratocruiser article excerpts Anak (Israeli Boeing 377) "Speedbird Stratocruiser: A New Aircraft for B.O.A.C.'s Western Route", Flight magazine...
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  • Other Airways Flying Club British Airways ethnic liveries Fleet Oneworld "Speedbird" List of airline holding companies Heathrow Terminal 3 Speedwing World...
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    St Leonards-on-Sea, April 2010 "Cunarder Jet Challenge – Eagle Versus Speedbird", Flight International, pp. 770/1, 17 May 1962 "The Home of Eagle ......
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    National Postal Museum. Retrieved 26 March 2018. Robin Higham (2013). Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC. I.B.Tauris. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-85773-334-4...
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  • Other Airways Flying Club British Airways ethnic liveries Fleet Oneworld "Speedbird" List of airline holding companies Heathrow Terminal 3 Speedwing World...
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  • Newincco 1361 Limited which has also trademarked 'Gear Nobs', and the name 'Speedbird' which is speculated to be a charater [sic] on the show. Jeremy, Clarkson...
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    British Airways IATA flight No. BA2276 ICAO flight No. BAW2276 Call sign SPEEDBIRD 2276 HEAVY Registration G-VIIO Flight origin McCarran International Airport...
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    corpse reviver. Harry "Vic" Viccars, 1975 to 1981. His cocktails included "Speedbird," one of three drinks created for the first commercial flight of the Concorde...
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