Posts By: Henry Tenby
Trans-Canada Air Lines Vickers Viscount
In the early 1950s, Vickers Armstrongs made a significant marketing push to draw Trans-Canada Air Lines as a customer for their revolutionary Viscount turboprop airliner. When the airline selected the Viscount, a number of promotional films made by the airline and Vickers to promote the new aircraft to the travelling public.
Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8
In the late 1950s, Douglas Aircraft of Long Beach, made a significant marketing push to draw Trans Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8 as a customer for their new, revolutionary jet transport, the Douglas DC-8. Trans Canada Air Lines When Trans Canada Air Lines selected the DC-8, a number of promotional films made by the airline …Read more »
Air Canada The 1960s G.R. McGregor
From Air Canada 1960s G.R. McGregor Archives: By many counts, it can be said that Air Canada 1960s G.R. McGregor was the father of Canada’s National airline. When he became President of the company in 1948, Trans-Canada Air Lines was a fledgeling carrier operating a rag-tag fleet of mostly obsolete WWII surplus aircraft. In 1968 …Read more »
Trans-Canada Air Lines In the 1950s
FROM Trans Canada Airlines In the 1950s Archives: By the early 1950s, the world’s airline had established themselves as a new and alternate mode of transport, but still reserved for the wealthy and business traveller, ad the medium has still far from being accepted as a mass form of transit. Trans Canada Airlines In the …Read more »
Air Canada Vanguard and DC-8
FROM Air Canada Vanguard Archives: In the 1960s, Air Canada’s medium to long haul services operated by their fleet of British-built Vickers Vanguard and Douglas DC-8 jets. The Vanguards and DC-8s of Trans-Canada Air Lines and Air Canada were once common place at Canadian airports. This program is a tribute to these great aircraft. When …Read more »
Canadair CT-33 Silver Star In-Cockpit HD
Strap in for a hell of a ride! Flights on vintage cold war jets are hard to come by, and fortune came our way at the 2013 Abbotsford Airshow, when we had the exclusive opportunity to meet up with Greg Colyer, and his beautifully restored Canadair CT-33 Silver Star jet trainer. The Canadair CT-33 a …Read more »
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