Ambassador
BEA Elizabethan ‘Silver Wing’ Luxury Service
‘The Aeroplane’ was invited to sample ‘Silver Wing’, a new BEA luxury service to Paris, and in its May 9, 1952 issue gave its impressions as well as that of the Elizabethan aircraft utilised
The complete story of the Airspeed Ambassador
The Airspeed Ambassador was hailed as the Douglas DC-3’s heir apparent before the California-built type had cemented its place in history during D-Day and Market Garden. However, the post-war type failed to keep pace with technological advances, as Bruce Hales-Dutton describes
From the cockpit – on board a BEA Elizabethan
A superbly detailed account of the intricacies of operating and flying this propeller-driven airliner from a different era, which first appeared in the pages of the November 14, 1952 issue of The Aeroplane