Scotland Fly British Overseas Airways Corporation

This stunning illustration presents 3 men in their magnificent traditional Scottish kilts dancing a highland fling.

B·O·A·C. pioneered the Jet Age in Great Britain and this poster is one in a series that was created to help promote the company after World War II. BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) was a Government owned airline and was established when Imperial Airways and British Airways merged in 1940. In 1959 BOAC absorbed BSAA (British South American Airways). In 1952, a BOAC De Havilland Comet took off on the world's first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers and inaugurated scheduled service from London to Johannesburg. BOAC was Europe's first airline to operate a jet across the Atlantic, using the de Havilland Comet 4 since October 1958. In 1974 BOAC and BEA (British European Airways) formed today's British Airways.