The chairman of the British Air Transport Association, David Hopkins, who lives near St Mawgan in north Cornwall, gets the OBE for services to the civil aviation industry.

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Emelonye says he hopes the movie, along with promoting civil aviation safety in Nigeria, will open up his country's burgeoning film industry to a wider audience, dismissing the low-quality tag that's often attached to Nollywood productions.

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So the big message of Concorde's 30th birthday may be that civil aviation is, technically at least, a mature industry.

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However, given the level of regulation in the aviation industry it will be a long time before the new technique can be exploited, particularly in civil aviation, says Mr Bell.

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