• Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which...
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  • recession, operating its last flight on 5 February 1982. Freddie Laker announced the creation of Laker Airways in February 1966. The airline commenced commercial...
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  • marketing strategy. He is the son of Freddie Laker, the founder of British airline Laker Airways. Freddie Laker began his career after dropping out of...
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  • 1996 Sir Freddie Laker and his business partner Oscar Wyatt, a self-made Texas oilman, established Laker Airways, Inc. as a sister airline to Laker Airways...
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    entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker. "Good evening Wembley and the world. We are here tonight to celebrate the life, and work, and dreams, of one Freddie Mercury....
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  • reached number 40 in the UK Albums Chart in April 1979. The track "Freddie Laker (Concorde and Eurobus)" was released as a single on 13 April 1979, backed...
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  • specialising in cross-Channel vehicle-cum-passenger ferry services. Freddie Laker started Channel Air Bridge as a sister airline of Air Charter on a provisional...
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  • Laker is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Barbara Laker, American journalist Freddie Laker (1922–2006), English airline entrepreneur Freddie...
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    Fly me, I'm Freddie!, pp. 93–98 "Air Commerce, Mr Laker on South America". Flight International: 656. 15 October 1964. "Air Commerce, Mr Laker on South America"...
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    Operations with these twin-engined aircraft continued until February 1951. Freddie Laker followed up his acquisition of bankrupt Surrey Flying Services in February...
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    Cup victory in Australia. Freddie Laker, who had pioneered low-fare commercial transatlantic routes and was the founder of Laker Airways, became interested...
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  • he met Freddie Laker. Following Laker's departure from BUA in 1965, Hellary followed Laker and took up the position of chief pilot for Laker's new airline...
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    18th-century surgeon David Gower, cricketer William Harvey, physician Sir Freddie Laker, airline entrepreneur Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright W. Somerset...
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    member of the airline and aircraft engineering group controlled by Freddie Laker. The ATL-90 Accountant was a turboprop airliner designed as a replacement...
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    frontman Freddie Mercury, England World Cup winner Bobby Moore, novelist Jane Austen, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and aviation entrepreneur Freddie Laker. In...
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  • a 737 MAX was performed on 15 July 2017, with a MAX 8 featuring Sir Freddie Laker on its tailfin, between Edinburgh Airport in Scotland and Bradley International...
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  • monarch). An exception is Spirit of Sir Freddie. An early Boeing 747, it was named in honour of Freddie Laker of Laker Airways, who helped Virgin Atlantic...
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  • established by Freddie Laker at Bovingdon in Hertfordshire, England, in 1947 to trade in war-surplus aircraft and spares. Two years later, Laker shifted his...
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    it performed its first transatlantic flight with a MAX 8 named Sir Freddie Laker on July 15, 2017, between Edinburgh Airport in Scotland and Bradley...
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    engines. It was a Douglas DC-4-based air ferry conversion developed by Freddie Laker's Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), with a capacity generally...
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    of Monte Cristo – Original Soundtrack (with Kasamatsu Kouji) (2005) "Freddie Laker (Concorde & Eurobus)" (1979), B-side "Ozymandias" "Girl from the Snow...
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  • time. We were in each other's pockets, travelling in a minibus and on Freddie Laker planes. It was getting tiring, but we lived on the adrenalin of it."...
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  • readers. The company was founded in 2012 by chief executive officer Freddie A. Laker, and privately launched its mobile app in alpha in February 2013. The...
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    Vickers/BAC by Freddie Laker and converted from Type 1101 to Type 1109 in 1968. It was initially leased to Middle East Airlines, but returned to Laker in 1969...
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    "Semangat Sir Freddie" (English: "Spirit of Sir Freddie") after the pioneer and founder of the low-cost model; the late, Sir Freddie Laker of Skytrain....
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    frontman Freddie Mercury, children's author Roald Dahl, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson, novelist Jane Austen and aviation entrepreneur Freddie Laker. In 2018...
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  • is a 2018 biographical musical drama film that focuses on the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen, from the formation...
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    Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick (Freddie), and Grace Pearl. Charles Frederick "Freddie" Ingalls was born on November 1, 1875, in Walnut...
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  • Nature Is Wild" – 6:12 "To Give" – 4:29 "Piggy In The Middle" – 2:53 "Freddie Laker" – 3:08 "Autumn" – 3:45 "Rhythm is a Cancer" – 3:07 "Misty Man" – 4:17...
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    Fredrick Jamel Tipton (born June 14, 1982), better known by his stage name Freddie Gibbs, is an American rapper. He signed with Interscope Records in 2006...
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