Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendant Intro 1950s
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendant Intro 1950s Back in the 1950s, working as a Flight Attendant was considered as only a job for young, un-married women. It was a highly glamorous affair and a young woman could see the world, whilst also earning an independent living. But the job also required many skills which required …Read more »
Building the Douglas DC-8 with Early Test Flight Footage (circa 1959)
The Douglas DC-8 was the second US built jetliner offered to the world’s leading airlines in the 1950s, after the market leader, the Boeing 707. Even though Douglas was a bit behind Boeing in terms of development, they had a stellar reputation with their piston powered family of airliners from the Douglas DC-3 to the …Read more »
USAF Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Air Refueling Documentary 1960s
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker was launched into service as an aerial refueling aircraft for the US Air Force in the 1950s, as a pre curser to the launch of the Boeing 707 jetliner in the passenger market. Given that the type 60 years later is still one of the mainstay refueling aircraft in the US …Read more »
US Air Force Reserves Opportunities and Mock Deployment 1980
This 1980 film was produced by the US Air Force to explain the various opportunities that exist for people to service in the Reserves. Be it in operational roles or ground support roles. And it also explains what reservists could experience if called to active duty in a real life deployment. The piece was filmed …Read more »
Lockheed C130 Hercules 1955 First Look (Previously Classified)
In 1955, a new model of troop and transport plane was first flown and put under flight testing, called the C130 Hercules, built by the Marietta, Georgia division of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. By January of 1955, six production models of the C130 were under construction. On April 7, 1955, the first production Hercules took …Read more »
Pan American Douglas DC-3 N877MG Historical Flight Foundation visit to Abbotsford
For the Abbotsford Airshow in August of 2014, John Sessions and his Seattle-based Historical Flight Foundation brought their DC-3 N877MG up North for the event. The DC-3 is not known with one hundred percent certainty to have flown with Pan American in earlier years, but there is a good chance that it did. On the …Read more »
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