Aviation News - June 2016

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Through the Y e s

1940 1950 1960

HEATHROW 70th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

LHR

LONDON

1944

Construction of London

Airport’s runways begins.

1946

London Airport opens as a

commercial airport on May 31.

1955

The Queen

opens the Central

Terminal Area and

Control Tower on

December 16.

1957

On October 1, the

 rst non-stop  ight to

California sets a new

record for distance

and time.

1964

The Beatles

are mobbed

at London

Airport.

Above: Iberia Douglas DC-8-63 EC-BMY taxies at Heathrow in May 1978 with a Seaboard World Boeing 747 in the background. AirTeamImages.com/Carl Ford

Below left: Inauguration of the  rst  ight from London Airport on May 31, 1946. The  rst aircraft to take off from Heathrow was an Avro

Lancastrian, a converted Lancaster bomber, called Starlight that  ew to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Heathrow Airport

Below right: When the airport  rst opened, the terminal consisted of tents erected along the Bath Road. Wooden boards were laid across the

air eld so that passengers could get to the aircraft without getting muddy. Heathrow Airport

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