In 1940, the British Air Force dropped its first bombs on Berlin in an overnight raid.
Iraq expelled U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, prompting four days of U.S. and British air raids.
Turkey also gave its full support to the U.S. and British air strikes.
One was a 1.8-metric ton British air bomb that could have wiped out the city center, according to the local fire brigade.
"He seemed very interested in what stage we are all in in terms of our rehabilitation, " said Erica Vey, a veteran of the British Air Force.
The chairman of the British Air Transport Association, David Hopkins, who lives near St Mawgan in north Cornwall, gets the OBE for services to the civil aviation industry.
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Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has demanded that the summit support his country's demands for an end to both U.N. sanctions and U.S. and British air patrols over Iraq.
There were also unconfirmed reports that refugees were being shelled by mortar and artillery fire in the Pagarusa Valley, along Kosovo's western border with Albania, British Air Commodore David Wilby said.
BAA, its owner, reckons that since domestic British air-passenger numbers have dropped by about 5%, the increase comes entirely from European sightseers taking advantage of 20 new international routes added since January, mainly by budget airlines.
During this period it did not apply for a permit and when it next applied for a permit to fly in UK air space, in May 2002, it was granted, and it has since been flying regularly in British air space with the full approval of British safety officials.
At the wheel is a former British Special Air Service soldier, squiring three clipboard-toting engineers from Bechtel Group.
It wasn't until I joined Special Forces, the British Special Air Service, that my watch fetish really took hold.
British Overseas Air Corporation was a precursor to BA, concentrating on long-haul routes in the early years of mass air travel.
Peake, who was a major and a helicopter pilot in the British Army Air Corps, has been in training for an expedition to the ISS since 2009.
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London-based Olive Security provides former British Special Air Service troops--one unarmed guard for every four or so engineers who go out on a job--to drive and offer a show of muscle.
The head of the British Army, General Richard Dannatt, and the head of the British armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, have both said British troops are stretched by fighting wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and Holland's KLM could be among them.
There it will revive a route abandoned by British Airways when air travel fell off after the terrorist attacks in America in 2001.
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Among the European stocks that are sensitive to the economy and were being heavily lent out were airlines like British Airways and Air France-KLM.
Spanish airline Iberia and Hong Kong's Cathay have reported losses, while others such as British Airways and Air France-KLM have seen profits fall sharply.
India can arm two types of aircraft to do this: the MiG-27 Flogger, which was made by the old Soviet Union, and the Jaguar, which was used in a nuclear role by the British and French air forces.
Both British Airways and Air France, the only airlines to fly Concordes, suspended operations to carry out multi-million pound refits after an Air France Concorde burst into flames on take-off from Paris in July 2000, killing 113 people on board and on the ground.
On a Monday the British Foreign Office asked Air Partner to prepare an airlift.
While some airlines have suspended services, Egypt Air and British Airways are operating on reduced schedules.
The Ministry of Defence has proposed buying some 150 for the British navy and the air force.
Kennedy Airport and London's Stansted Airport--but competitors are lining up, including giants British Airways, Delta Air Lines (nyse: DAL - news - people ) and American (which said it will start JFK-Stansted service with beds in October).
While X-Factor, remains by far the biggest regular hitter when it comes to TV-related tweets in the UK -- 3.7 million of the 38.7 million made about shows broadcast free-to-air on British television from April 1 to November 1 this year -- it is not just entertainment shows getting in on the act.
Two million: The number of air miles clocked up by British businessman Alan Watts to win the chance to become the first "air miles astronaut" aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceship in 2009.
In alphabetical order, the winners are: Air France-KLM, AMR Corporation (American Airlines, American Eagles), British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways.
After the crash, certification allowing the 12 existing Concordes to fly was withdrawn and the jets, operated by Air France and British Airways, were grounded until safety could be assured.
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