B.K.S. The Story of an Airline
The company BKS Aero Charter was registered on February 7, 1952, based at Southend. Adhoc charter work was operated throughout 1952 which was followed by ski charters to Innsbruck in the Winter of 1952/1953 as a contract service for a winter club made up of ski and outdoor sports enthusiasts. BKS commenced scheduled domestic UK …Read more »
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 and VC10 Promotional movies
This airline publicity movie contains two parts, and dates from the mid 1960s with the first part featuring the British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707, and the second part featuring the Vickers VC-10. The films do not tell much of the story or contain much narration as they are essentially visual feasts that celebrate the …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 »
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.
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 »
British Aviation Industry 1920s to 1950s
This information black and while film examines aircraft development in Britain during the first half of the Twentieth Century between, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s. It was actually a remarkable period, during which Britain advanced from the bi-plane to the supersonic jet, in a span of barely 25-30 years. Of course World …Read more »
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