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Posts By: Henry Tenby

Boeing 747 Development & Flight Test late 1960s DVD teaser

ORDER DVD HERE: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/747flighttest.html This 81 minute DVD takes the viewer back to the late 1960s, to examine first hand Boeing’s efforts to woo customers for their new jet. This is the remarkable story of perhaps the greatest commercial airliner ever built.

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar development & flight test DVD preview with Ronald Reagan

ORDER DVD: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/L1011flighttest.html “Watch out Boeing and Douglas .. because we’re after you.” In the late 1960s, it became apparent to Lockheed that a gap existed in the market between the high capacity, intercontinental Boeing 747, and the older 707s and DC-8s. Medium range aircraft like the 737, 727 and DC-9 were too small to …Read more »

Douglas DC-8 late 1950s Flight Test DVD

BUY THIS DVD HERE: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/DC8FlightTest.html The Douglas DC-8 went through a comprehensive development and flight test process, which was captured on a series of promotional colour chine films that were distributed to prospective airlines between 1957 and 1959. We were able to professionally digitize a number of these historic films to exclusively present on this …Read more »

Douglas DC-8 Flight Test DVD Preview

Order DVD: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/DC8Fli… In the late 1950s, Douglas Aircraft of Long Beach, made a significant marketing push to draw many of the world’s airline to their new jet transport, the Douglas DC-8. This all colour 70 minute DVD examines the development and extensive flight test phase of the DC-8, which was conducted in flights between …Read more »

Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8 DVD Preview

ORDER DVD: http://www.henrytenby.com/DVDs/TCADou… From the Air Canada historic film archives, this DVD exclusively presents four period films about the Douglas DC-8 that cover the development and marketing of the aircraft to airlines of the day, as well as films about the aircraft in the TCA operating theatre of the very early 1960s. Also included in …Read more »

Happy 75th Birthday Air Canada – A Visual History 1930s-60s

Several years ago, Henry Tenby started a one-man effort communicating with Air Canada, the NFB, and the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, with the purpose of digitizing the TCA / Air Canada’s historic film archives, and presenting the airline’s moving image history in a series of DVDs. The whole idea was to unlock this …Read more »