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 »
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 »
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 »
USAF Cold War Berlin Blockade 1947
This movie from 1947 explains the history in the lead up to the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the allied effort to keep the isolated city resupplied with a massive fleet of transport aircraft from points in Allied West Germany.
USAF Convair B-36 Peacemaker 1947 Introduction Film
This USAF publicity film from 1947 introduces the viewing public of the day to the then brand new massive bomber the Convair B-36 Peacemaker.
Airline Hobby Magna Carta from 1975 Discovered
Henry Tenby reports having located the airline hobby’s founding document, Magna Carta, founding Constitution, which dates from 1975! This 45 year old document is the very first issue of the Captain’s Log, which was published by the late Paul Collins in his earliest effort to formally organize a social group of airline fans to form …Read more »
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