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YVR Vancouver Airport & Obs Deck Spotting Visit 1960 with Henry Tenby

JetFlix TV’s Henry Tenby takes back for a nostalgic visit to YVR Vancouver Airport in May and Summer of 1960 for a look at the airport terminal building and the famous observation decks and resident airliners of the day in this special 30 minute video presentation.

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Vintage Airline Travel Memories Potpourri 1930s to 1960s

At JetFlix TV we are always looking for old long lost and forgotten 16mm cine movies films of airline and aviation topics so that we can digitize them and present them to our viewers. The idea is to preserve the images digitally so they can be enjoyed for generations to come. This small collection of …Read more »

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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 »

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Douglas DC-8 Goes Into Service 1959

United Airlines Douglas DC-8 Goes Into Service Overview and Introduction: Early 1959s: United Airlines was the first US domestic airline to order the DC-8 in 1955, second customer for the DC-8 (after Pan American). Deliveries began on May 29, 1959, and United received 22 DC-8 series 10 aircraft.

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Small World – Early 1970s Airline Industry (en Francais)

(En Francais – This “Early 1970s Airline Industry” film is narrated in French) Produced in the early 1970s, using stock footage supplied by the world’s major airlines of the day, this film examines the workings of the airline industry with an abundance of fabulous classic airliner scenes.

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Mirabel Airport – Mid 1970s Reports from Montreal

Also(This film represent Mirabel Airport – Mid 1970s Reports from Montreal) Mirabel Airport on the outskirts of Montreal was going to be the city’s replacement airport for Dorval Airport. It was big news in the early 1970s, as Mirabel was a massive infrastructure undertaking for for the day. The massive international airport went through feasibility …Read more »