Olympic Airways - Athens
Onur Air - Istanbul
Pan Am - US
Pakistan International Airways - Pakistan
Philippine Airways - Philippine
Polar Air Cargo - US
Hi Pieman
"Q" is next letter after "P" had been posted.
Quantas (sp?) - Australia, I think
Singapore Airlines - Singapore
SAS Scandinavian Airlines - Copenhagen Airport
Southwest Airlines - Dallas Airport
Thai Airways - Thailand
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Mame - your query
QANTAS (originated as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service) Third oldest airline in the world (Behind KLM and Avianca). :wink:
United Airlines - USA
Uzbekistan Airways - Tashkent
US Airways - Charlotte
USA - Saigon Airport - 1969...... I approached the airport from the NE - called the tower ((the most heavy trafficed airport in the world at the time)) and heard this over the tower radio = "Everybody, Saigon Airport area, GO AWAY!! COME BACK - TEN MINUTES!!"
Apparently, the english speaking tower operator had gone to the bathroom and the local was not up to vectoring aircraft traffic - ((true story))...... So, all the airplanes (USA Type) started to land themselves....!! True story...... Believe it or not !!!!!!!!!!
WestJet Airlines, US
World Airways, US
Zoom Airlines, UK
Okay.... next topic.....
Famous Scots and what they're famous for:
Robert Adam: An architect noted for his elegant terraces in the New Town of Edinburgh, together many fine public buildings, and much Georgian development in London.
Sir (Robert) Rowand Anderson: Scotland's leading architect around the turn of the century. His public buildings include the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the McEwan Graduation Hall and Medical School for the University of Edinburgh.
Sir William Arrol: Engineer. Responsible for the Forth Rail Bridge and the replacement Tay Rail Bridge which were the two most substantial bridges in the world of their time and are still in constant use today. Also worked on Tower Bridge in London.
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946)
Engineer. Inventor of the television and later developed ideas such as colour, 3-D and large screen television. Also took out a patent on fibre-optics, a technology now used to carry many telephone calls and traffic on the internet.
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Arthur James Balfour (First Earl of Balfour) (1848 - 1930)
Politician. British Prime Minister between 1902 and 1906. The "Balfour Declaration" of 1917 promised the Zionists a home in Palestine.
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Sir James Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Author and Playright. Best known for the creation of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
Born in Edinburgh. Having emigrated to Canada and later the USA, Bell became the inventor of the telephone in 1876.
William Cadell /
The first to produce commercial quantities of iron in Scotland.
Charles I /
The last king to be born in Scotland.
Sean Connery /
Award winning actor, possibly Scotland's most famous son
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firefly - I have to mention Robert Burns - my favorite poet. Originator of the phrase "the best laid schemes of mice and men."
Ruaraidh Stuart Joseph Erskine / Writer,
Left-wing nationalist and promoter of Gaelic culture.
Winnie Ewing / Political Figure -
A prominent, early Scots Nationalist M.P. and M.E.P. since 1975.
Sir Alexander Fleming - Ayrshire, Scotland - discovered the world's first antibiotic drug - Penicillin. Fleming was knighted and received the Nobel Prize in 1944.
James Gregory /
A talented mathematician and pioneer of calculus
Sir Alexander Grant /
World's best known biscuit manufacturer, McVitie & Price.
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. Abducted and married Mary Queen of Scots.
Earl Haig, Field Marshall. Commanded Allied troops on the Western Front in WWI
David Hume. Philosopher, agnostic and leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Voted recently as the Scot who had made the greatest impact in the last 1,000 years.
James Hutton. Father of modern geology.
