United Airlines Stratocruiser DC-6 Convair CV-340 DC-8
These wonderful films capture United Airlines Stratocruiser in the magical era of the 1950s. Back then, travel by air a completely new method of travel, and the airlines set out to educate the general public as to how safe, convenient and efficient air travel becoming. This show is loaded with fabulous classic propliner footage from …Read more »
Aer Lingus Classics 1960s and 1970s
Aer Lingus Classics 1960s In the summer of 1969, flower power was in full swing across Europe, and the hit movie in Ireland that memorable summer was “The Graduate” starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. The Aer Lingus promo film “Shamrocks Sky High” played in Irish cinemas along with “The Graduate” to promote the airline’s …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 »
Concorde Development & Flight Test
In the 1960s, while the commercial airline industry was still in its early years, the aviation business was making great technological strides in terms of aircraft speed and altitude, and the crushing impacts of the Arab oil embargo were still many years away. The British and French governments collaborated forces to develop a jet transport …Read more »
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Development & Flight Test
In the late 1960s, it became apparent to Lockheed that a gap existed in the market between the high capacity, intercontinental Boeing 747, and the older 707s and DC-8s. Medium range aircraft like the 737, 727 and DC-9 too small to economically service larger longer domestic US routes, and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar developed to …Read more »
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