Posts By: Henry Tenby
Flying the Bristol Freighter Part I (1992-1994)
From 1989 until 1999, the wilds of Northwestern British Columbia was the setting for the world’s last working Bristol Freighter operation. In Flying the Bristol Freighter Part I Engineer Paul Hawkins had the good fortune of being able to extensively film Bristol Freighters C-FDFC and C-FTPA on the job with Terrace based Trans-Provincial Airlines. In this …Read more »
British Golden Age Airlines
These wonderful films capture the British Golden Age Airlines scene of the late 1940s and 1950s. This was the time when BOAC was emerging as Britain’s international overseas airline, and BEA was Britain’s leading domestic and short haul carrier. It was also during this glorious era that Britain was a world leader in the development …Read more »
Classic Jetliners 1960s: Boeing 707 / Douglas DC-8 / Convair 880
In the early 1960s, the world’s airlines were transitioning from piston and turboprop aircraft to jet-powered aircraft. The dawn of the golden age of jet travel had arrived and global travel was becoming a mass, worldwide phenomena. Everyone wanted to travel by jet, and the world’s airlines promoted their jet services by every means possible, …Read more »
Sandcasting Aircraft Models with Werner Strekies
Today, cast aluminum metal airliner models produced by master model makers back in the 1950s and 1960s, are highly valuable collectibles. Such models now command premium prices from travel agent display model collectors the world over. Before fiberglass and plastic became widely available in the 1960s, travel agent display models sand cast by hand on …Read more »
Flying On Classic Jetliners
In this day and age of stone-cold boring, sterile, plastic air transports, the thrill of Flying On Classic Jetliners of the past is all but a fading memory. Once common airliner types like the BAC One Eleven, Airbus A300, Boeing 720, and even Boeing 737-200s and 727-100s have all but vanished from the skies. As …Read more »
MEA Boeing 707: On Board & in Beirut
Throughout the Lebanese civil war, Lebanon’s flag-carrier airline MEA Boeing 707 kept flying, while almost everything else On Board & in Beirut was destroyed. Most would have thought that Middle East Airlines, like the country it serves, should have gone out of business. This show examines the story behind MEA’s remarkable survival, with on-location action …Read more »
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