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  Fly with the Stars

 
Fly with the Stars
Author:    Susan Ottaway & Ian Ottaway
Subtitle:    British South American Airways - The Rise and Controversial Fall of a Trailblazer
ISBN:    9780750944489
ISBN-10:    075094448X
Publisher:    The History Press Ltd
Date Published:    1/11/2007
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    244
Language:    English
RRP: $59.95
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Book Description:
RAF " Pathfinders" , British South American Airways was one of three state owned airlines established by the Civil Aviation Act of 1946 – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). Under Bennett’ s direction BSAA was a dynamic, forward thinking company which not only pioneered the difficult and dangerous routes from the UK to West Africa, South America and to the Caribbean, but also took the lead in such things as the provision of frozen meals for passengers. It was one of the first airlines to show in-flight movies – nearly twenty years ahead of its rivals. The future looked bright for BSAA, but a handful of widely publicised fatal accidents, allegations of sabotage and several mysterious disappearances of aircraft, led to a widespread loss of confidence in BSAA. The most famous of these incidents were the disappearance of two Avro Tudor aircraft in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle and the loss of an Avro Lancastrian in the Andes in 1947. What happened to the Avro Tudors remains a mystery, although there are theories as to what caused the disappearances. Part of the Lancastrian Star Dust has recently emerged from the Andean glacier in which it was entombed for over fifty years and the reason for the crash has now been revealed. This has led to a renewal of interest in BSAA. For a number of political and commercial reasons, these tragic occurrences were shamelessly exploited by the Ministry of Aviation and BOAC, and BSAA’ s fleet was grounded. Without aircraft to fly, the airline was forced it into a merger with BOAC in 1949, thereby sealing its fate. There has neverbeen a complete history of BSAA, although the histories of BOAC, BEA and British Airways have been well documented. The title, Fly with the Stars, is taken from the company's advertising slogan and the book itself will describe the airline's brief but full life, the challenges it faced in the post war boom in civil aviation, set against


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