TRAIL BLAZERS OF THE SKY

This beautiful poster, like those that we used to see decades ago, has been printed to mark the 25th Anniversary of British European Airways ( founded in 1946 ).

To mark the 25th Anniversary of British European Airways, founded in 1946, The Daily Telegraph Magazine presents a new chart, specially drawn by artist L.E. Fantan, of some of the aircraft airlines have flown in the past, some they are flying today ( 1971 ), and a few of the trailblazers which came before and led the way. Here are the aircraft depicted on this very chart :

• Avro 504M.
• Airco DH.4A.
• Handley Page 0 / 400.
• Handley Page H.P.42.
• Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat.
• Douglas DC - 3.
• Vickers - Armstrong VC.1 Viking.
• Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador ( or Elizabethan ).
• Vickers Viscount 802.
• Vickers Vanguard.
• de Havilland DH 106 Comet 4B.
• Hawker Siddeley HS 121 Trident 3B.