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    Sir Giles Connop McEachern Guthrie, 2nd Baronet, OBE, DSC, JP (21 March 1916 – 31 December 1979) was an English aviator, merchant banker and later, an...
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  • tail-fin modifications which Boeing made available to all 707 users.) Sir Giles Guthrie, who took charge of BOAC in 1964, preferred Boeing aircraft for economic...
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    suitably scathing. MacRobertson Air Race winner C.W.A. Scott aided by Giles Guthrie won the race in a Percival Vega Gull, but it was a hollow victory, as...
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    not a sponsor of indigenous aircraft. BOAC's incoming chairman Sir Giles Guthrie was also anti-VC10; he proposed that the Vickers programme be shelved...
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    year, he won another air race; flying a Percival Vega Gull, he and Giles Guthrie won the Schlesinger Air Race from Portsmouth to Johannesburg, South...
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    September 1938 Polish National Archives photo of Lockheed 14 with pilot Giles Guthrie Polish national Archives photo of Lockheed 14 (G-AFKE) at Warsaw, 1939...
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  • Robert Guthrie, KBE, 1st Baronet (1882–1945) Sir Giles Connop McEacharn Guthrie, OBE, DSC, 2nd Baronet (1916–1979) Sir Malcolm Connop Guthrie, 3rd Baronet...
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    resignation; Slattery commented in 1964 that he had effectively been sacked. Giles Guthrie, a respected aviator, merchant banker and director of British European...
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    C. W. A. Scott, (Black's co-pilot in the 1934 MacRoberts Race) and Giles Guthrie. The following is a transcript of Incidents Report at Speke Airport:...
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    Thomas Guthrie FRSE (12 July 1803 – 24 February 1873) was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire)...
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