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 | | In the late 20’s and early thirties, the foundations for fixed scheduled routes were laid by prominent initiators such as Captain Edmund Fresson who established a base in Inverness, John Sword in Renfrew and E. Gander Dower in Dyce, Aberdeen. |
 | | Scotland’s introduction to commercial aviation delivered companies such as Scottish Airways, Railway Air Services, Highland Airways, SMT (Scottish Motor Traction), Midland and Scottish Air Ferries and Allied Airways, providing passenger and mail services to London, Manchester, Belfast and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. |
 | | The eventual realisation that man was capable of destroying not only his neighbouring countries, but his own planet, saw aviation’s speedy progress re-evaluating political culture and causing a social reappraisal of mankind itself. |
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