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The Flying Swan is a 1965 British TV series starring Margaret Lockwood and her daughter Julia. [1] [2] [3] It ran for 24 episodes on the BBC. The theme music for the series was composed by Ron Grainer. [4]
The Flying Swan is a 1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It told the story of Hans Christian Andersen. [1] The play was one of Shepherd's major works. [2] The play was her fourth for the ABC. [3] The play was popular and was produced again in 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1949. [4] The play was produced in Canada.
Today, five flying swans are the symbol of the Nordic countries; the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) is the national bird of Finland; [46] and the mute swan is the national bird of Denmark. [ 47 ] Swan Lake ballet
The Brentford Trilogy is a series of twelve novels by writer Robert Rankin. [1] They humorously chronicle the lives of a couple of drunken middle-aged layabouts, Jim Pooley and John Omally, who confront the forces of darkness in the environs of West London, usually with the assistance of large quantities of beer from their favourite public house, The Flying Swan.
Whooper swan: Cygnus cygnus: Anatidae: 8,200 metres (27,000 feet) This height was attained by a flock of whooper swans flying over Northern Ireland, and recorded by radar. [2] [5] Alpine chough: Pyrrhocorax graculus: Corvidae: 8,000 metres (26,500 feet) This height was recorded on Mount Everest. [5] Bearded vulture: Gypaetus barbatus: Accipitridae
The whooper swan (/ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/ "hooper swan"; Cygnus cygnus), also known as the common swan, is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan , and the type species for the genus Cygnus .
The Supermarine Swan was a wooden biplane amphibian aircraft. It was designed by R. J. Mitchell, the chief designer at Supermarine. Mitchell designed the aircraft in parallel with the Supermarine Scylla, as a replacement for the Royal Air Force's standard flying boat at that time, the Felixstowe F5.
Air India: The logo is a red flying swan with the wheel of the Konark Sun Temple painted in orange on the swan's spread-out wing. The 2023 rebranding, dubbed "The Vista", featured golden window trim about jharokha, a stone window which is a common feature to classic Indian architecture.