LIONS THAT ROARED BRITISH CALEDONIAN VC10s

摘要

British Caledonian Airways, affectionately known as BCal, was inaugurated in November 1970, after a Scottish-based charter airline known as Caledonian Airways took over British United Airways (BUA), which at the time was Britain's largest independent carrier. This followed implementation of British government policy set out in the 1969 Edwards report, introduced as a counterbalance to what it saw as the marketplace dominance by the state-owned corporations (BEA and BOAC), which between them had provided 90% of all UK scheduled air transport capacity.