Air Cargo Sky Traders 1952
This film dates from 1952 and was produced to extol the benefits of moving cargo and time sensitive materials by air. This was shortly after the end of World War Two and the commercial aviation industry was still very much in its infancy. Air cargo and its potential to benefit many aspects of daily life …Read more »
Test Flying the Fokker F27 with Fokker Test Pilot H.V.B. Burgerhout (Dutch)
This Dutch language promo film was made by Fokker in the 1950s to demonstrate the impressive flight characteristics of their then new Fokker 27 regional airliner. Powered by two Rolls Royce Dart engines, the same reliable engines that powered the four engine Vickers Viscount, the Fokker F27 went on to achieve a similar worldwide sale …Read more »
Closer Than you Think – Wardair Canada 1965 DC-6B Promo Movie
In the 1950s, Wardair Canada provided cargo charter operations from Yellowknife to remote points in the Northwest Territories using a rugged fleet of Bristol Mk. 31 Freighters, De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter general utility bush planes. Other than local Yellowknife operator Northwest Territorial which was launched in 1962 by American transplant Bob …Read more »
VARIG Lockheed Electra Part 1 – Ponte Aerea Early 1990s
THIS FILM CONTAINS PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE CONTENT The Ponte Aerea was a pooled “air bridge” operation between the two largest cities in Brazil, namely Rio and Sao Paulo.
Hawker Siddeley HS748 in Canada
Few aircraft are more at home in the harsh arctic and the wilds of Northern Canada than the reliable, rugged Hawker Siddeley HS748. Many of these excellent, British-built propliners served in Canada over the years, as operators found them ideal on short, gravel strips. Their Dart engines boast plenty of power, and their 11,000-pound payload …Read more »
Vickers Viscounts and Vanguard Coventry 1996
In the mid 1990s, most of the freight that passed through Coventry’s night-time freight hub transported aboard vintage propliners. Including Vickers Viscounts and at the time, the world’s last operational Vickers Vanguard. The frenzied, nocturnal, propliner activities which took place from this humble, ramshackle rural location. It captured by aviation videographer Henry Tenby, during several …Read more »
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