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Posts By: Henry Tenby

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Beirut Airport DVD: Middle East Jetport

Beirut Airport has witnessed a massive building boom since the mid-90s, and the Paris of the Middle East has very much returned to its former glory, with luxury hotels, up-market shops, a glittering skyline, and a new, bustling International Airport. The latest Boeing and Airbus jetliners bring tourists and business travelers from Europe, the Middle …Read more »

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Golden Age Airlines: 1940s – 1960s

1. Air Transportation (B&W) 1947 (10 minutes) This late 1940s vocational guidance film outlines the various jobs available to both men and women in the early days of the airline industry. Some very nice Constellation and Douglas propliner footage. 2. The Airport (B&W) 1948 (10 minutes) This late 1940s program highlights the functions of a …Read more »

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Trans-Canada Air Lines In the 1940s

In the 1940s people travelled abroad by ship, and domestic travel was either by bus or car, or rail. The concept of travelling by air was new, and airlines in Canada (like elsewhere in the world) were very much in their infancy. Trans Canada Air Lines 1940s make your travelling by air easy. Trans-Canada Air Lines …Read more »

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Royal Air Force Vickers VC-10 Vancouver Visit 2011 HD

In early March of 2011, Royal Air Force Vickers VC-10 C.1K XV104 and her crew made a very much welcomed visit to Vancouver, BC, Canada2011 in order for some maintenance to be performed. The aircraft was operating a crew rotation flight between RAF Brize Norton and Calgary, and some sort of engine problem developed while …Read more »

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Trans Canada Air Lines 1940s & 1950s from NFB

In the 1940s & 1950s, the National Film Board of Canada documented Canada’s then new national airline to educate the Canadian public about the new mode of travel. Thousands of feet of Hollywood quality cine film on Trans Canada Air Lines 1940s and 1950s dormant in NFB. It is archives for decades. Until we discovered …Read more »

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Flying the NWT Air Boeing 737-200

NWT Air’s fleet of three Boeing 737-200Cs linked the sparsely inhabited Northwest Territories with the Air Canada mainline, until the company sold in 1997. Between 1993 and 1996, former NWT Air employee and aviation fan Henry Tenby enthusiastically filmed as much of the Flying the NWT Air Boeing 737-200 action as he could with the …Read more »