A Visit to the Aviation Hobby Shop West Drayton 1992
Join Henry Tenby for one of his regular visits to Tony Eastwood’s TAHS The Aviation Hobby Shop in West Drayton near London Heathrow Airport in November of 1992. As a hard-core airline fan, Henry Tenby had been visiting the shop starting in the summer of 1983 on his visits to London which continued through the …Read more »
BAC One Eleven POCKET ROCKET – British Airways Flight Experience 1996
On June 30, 1996, the wheels of fate and fortune aligned and Henry Tenby was able to have his one and only flight on scheduled airline BAC One Eleven. British Airways BAC One Eleven Series 400 G-AVGP operated by Maersk Air was on the Birmingham to Belfast route and Henry Tenby filmed the entire flight …Read more »
US Air Force KC-135 Take-Off – Smoking Like a House on Fire
The old A models of the US Air Force KC-135 were powered by water injected engines developed in the early 1950s. These engines were notoriously smokey specially at full power on take-off where the effects of water injection delivered trails of billowing black smoke. This video speaks for itself, extremely impressive!! Although not ideal for …Read more »
World Airways – Charter Airline Operations Circa 1967
World Airways was an Oakland, California based charter airline that was born in the 1950s, and by the mid 1960s was a very active player in the international passenger jet charter market. This promotional film was made by the company to promote the professionalism of their services, circa 1967, at a time when the company …Read more »
Boeing 707 Dash80 Jetliner – 1954 Promotional Movie
This film explains the concept of the 4 engine jet transport along with the various systems that comprise the then new Boeing 707 Dash 80 airliner. Boeing rolled out their 707 Dash 80 in 1954. This is a quite nicely preserved color film that was made to capture this historic event. The new 707 could …Read more »
BOAC Vickers VC-10 Flight Crew Training Film 1970
This film provides an in depth look at what it takes for a young pilot on his journey from student pilot to qualification on BOAC’s then new Vickers VC-10 inter continental jetliner. The film follows pilot Stephen Radcliffe in this fascinating career journey from the College of Air Training, various aptitude tests, his first solo …Read more »
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