Posts By: Henry Tenby
Varig Air Lines Lockheed L-188A Electra-1987
AWESOME sights & sounds from those big Allisons! Varig operated their Electras on the Ponte Aerea until 1992, when the fleet was sold to two-bit airlines in Africa. The footage was taken at Rio’s Santos Dumont Airport.
The Man in the Sky movie Bristol Freighter Jack Hawkins (1957)
Jack Hawkins is John Mitchell, a test pilot with more than his mortgage on his mind! An Ealing production with many well known British faces of the 1950’s including Elizabeth Sellars, John Stratton, Victor Maddern, Lionel Jeffries, Megs Jenkins and Donald Pleasence. Oh yes and one Bristol Freighter Type 170 Mark 11A G-AIFV flown by …Read more »
NZ Bristol Freighter – First Taxi in 20 Years
In 1986 the Bristol Freighter ZK-CPT (‘Merchant Courier’) was flown into Omaka Aerodrome (Blenheim, New Zealand) and retired. The aircraft engines were subsequently run on several occasions, but this has not occurred for over 20 years. Enter Alastair Marshall – ex RNZAF Engine Technician, now commercial pilot, and a piston engine enthusiast. Over the past …Read more »
Bristol Freighter in Aussie film The Rescue
New Zealand Bristol Freighter in the 1986 film called The Rescue.
JAL DC-8-61 TakeOff Narita pro shot footage
JAL Japan Airlines DC-8-61 cockpit view take off from Tokyo Narita in the 1980s. Pro quality footage.
Flying the Bristol Freighter Mk.31 Hawkair DVD Preview
Order this DVD here: http://henrytenby.com/DVDs/Bristol2dvd.html Picking up from where the part I DVD left off, in 1994, Paul Hakwins and his colleagues took over the Terrace-based Bristol Freighter operation from their defunct employer, Trans-Provincial Airlines. The majority Hawkair’s work involved hauling between Bronson Creek’s gravel airstrip and Wrangell in support of the Snipe Mine.
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