BEA British European Airways 1971 Operations – 25th Anniversary Film

BEA British European Airways was the UK’s State owned domestic and medium haul airline until it merged with BOAC to form British Airways in 1973. This promotional film was produced to celebrate BEA’s 25th Silver Anniversary in 1971, and highlight the airline’s accomplishments and operations during that year. BEA and associated airlines operated an all …Read more »

BOAC in the 1950s

London City Airport Action

Cityjet Avroliner RJ85 London City to Dublin – A Fabulous Aircraft PART 1

The Avroliner RJ85 and its earlier sister the BAe 146 is a unique aircraft when it comes to short-haul inter-city airliners. With a relatively wide body cabin and flour jet engines, the Avroliner serves a special niche that not too many other airliners can match. The ability to operate from short runways with obstructions and …Read more »

Farnborough Airshow Highlights 1949 – Sunderland / Viscount / Brabazon / Apollo / Hermes

This newsreel movie provides a narrated highlight of the aircraft presented at the SBAC (Society of British Aircraft Builders) Farnborough Airshow of 1949. The immediate postwar years saw Britain enter perhaps its most ambitious period of aircraft development with a wide range of both civilian and military aircraft being developed for the post war world …Read more »

Flying the Bristol Freighter Part I (1992-1994)

From 1989 until 1999, the wilds of Northwestern British Columbia was the setting for the world’s last working Bristol Freighter operation. In Flying the Bristol Freighter Part I Engineer Paul Hawkins had the good fortune of being able to extensively film Bristol Freighters C-FDFC and C-FTPA on the job with Terrace based Trans-Provincial Airlines. In this …Read more »