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Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendant Intro 1950s

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendant Intro 1950s Back in the 1950s, working as a Flight Attendant was considered as only a job for young, un-married women. It was a highly glamorous affair and a young woman could see the world, whilst also earning an independent living. But the job also required many skills which required …Read more »

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Getting Canada Off the Ground (1972)

Getting Canada Off the Ground (1972) This 1972 film is part of Air Canada’s historical film archives that we digitized in Ottawa several years back, that we did not release on DVD. On January 17, 1972, the air traffic controllers across Canada went on strike for 10 days. For the first time in their history, …Read more »

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Assignment Jet Colorama – Air to Air Photoshoot US Navy Blue Angels F-11 Tigers

Assignment Jet Colorama – Air to Air Photoshoot US Navy Blue Angels F-11 Tigers In the early 1960s this film was made to show the planning that went into the air-to-air photoshoot of the US Navy Blue Angels Grumman F-11 Tigers for a huge billboard that appeared on Kodak’s famed “colorama” in Grand Central Station …Read more »

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Canadian Pacific Airlines CP Air: History of the Airline 1930s – 1970s

Canadian Pacific Airlines was born from the great Canadian Pacific Steamship and Railways company that provided trans continental and overseas transport services from Canada going back to shortly after the country’s founding in 1867. Canadian Pacific Airlines was actually an amalgamation of a handful of small local airlines that were serving specialized regions within Canada …Read more »

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Air Age Distribution 1960s

Even back in the early 1960s, cargo by air was a very established and important sector of the airline industry. The benefits of air cargo to the US manufacturing sector were communicated to industry by way of this movie, which was most likely funded by a conglomeration of the airlines from the day. Judging by …Read more »

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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 »