Alaska Glacier Sightseeing Flight on Super DC-3 TransNorthern Aviation
The chance to fly over one of the largest glaciers in Alaska at very low level in a near 70 year old Super DC-3 vintage airplane is an opportunity not to be missed! Back in 2008, JetFlix TV cameraman Chris Mak chartered TransNorthern Aviation Super Douglas DC-3 (also called a C-117) for a sightseeing flight …Read more »
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 1946 Debut – Glorious Kodachrome Promo Movie
Boeing had to transition quickly from being a war time military contractor of the warplanes to Uncle Sam to fight the Germans and Japanese to being a seller of commercial airliners to the post war fledgling airline industry. This fabulous film from 1946 was filmed in glorious colour on Kodachrome 16mm cine film, and the …Read more »
Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Introduction to Service Late 1940s
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was the A380 of the 1940s and 1950s. The basic design was an adaptation of the B-29 bomber in which the fuselage was enlarged for the long range transport of passengers on a double deck deck bubble design. The major long haul airlines of the day ordered the Startocruiser including BOAC, …Read more »
United Airlines Operations and Fleet Overview 1958
Like today, back in 1958, United Air Lines was one of the largest airlines in the free world. This beautiful period colour film highlights United’s operations from the period. It includes their small town, short hop service with their Convair 340s, United’s trans-continental services with their DC-6s for convenient coast-to-coast service in comfort, and even …Read more »
Nor-Fly Convair 440 Metropolitan Club Mid 1980s Pleasure Flight
Back in the 1970s Nor-Fly was a Norway based ad-hoc charter airline that operated a former Finnair Convair 440s LN-MAP and LN-KLK within Europe. By the early 1980s their operations had reduced significantly but Convair 440 LN-KLK was taken over by a group of aviation enthusiasts to operate fan trips under the new banner of …Read more »
Air North HS748 – FLYING THE YUKON-ALASKA SKED
Join videographer and plane spotter Chris Mark as he travels on Air North’s fabulous HS748 Rolls Royce powered vintage propliner on their summer sked between Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Filmed in August of 2007, we experience all the pleasures of flying on the Hawker Siddeley HS748, and this 38 minute video features plenty …Read more »
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