NWT Air Boeing 737-210C C-GNWI air-to-air and crew training Yellowknife 1992
NWT Air was founded in 1962 Robert Parsons “Bob” Engle as a Yellowknife, NWT based charter operator with a Beech 18 on floats. Over the decades the airline advanced to DC-3, DC-6, Lockheed L188 Electra and in the late 1980s to Boeing 737-200 Combi aircraft, which were ideally suited to the market placed demands of …Read more »
CRAF Civil Reserve Air Fleet – US Airlines Serving the US Military 1960s 1970s
The CRAF Civil Reserve Air Fleet are commercial airlines and their aircraft that can be called upon by the emergency demands of the US Government at times of national emergency, war, or natural disaster to aid in the transport of emergency personnel and cargo. The CRAF serves short haul, long haul, domestic, and Alaska. CRAF …Read more »
Boeing SST Super Sonic Transport Cockpit Instrumentation mid 1960s
This film was made in the mid 1960s to explain the advances in cockpit technology that would have been incorporated in the Boeing SST Super Sonic Transport, had the aircraft actual gone ahead with manufacture. Back in the mid 1960s Boeing was considering competing with the French-Angle Concorde in developing their own SST, which would …Read more »
NASA Boeing 747SP Sofia N747NA Aircraft and Operational Visual History
The Boeing 747SP Special Performance N747SP is a join operation between NASA and DLR the German Space agency and the aircraft is named SOFIA as the aircraft is an airborne “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy” platform. The former Pan Am then United 747SP underwent major modifications in the early 2000s which included the addition of …Read more »
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 and VC10 Promotional movies
This airline publicity movie contains two parts, and dates from the mid 1960s with the first part featuring the British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707, and the second part featuring the Vickers VC-10. The films do not tell much of the story or contain much narration as they are essentially visual feasts that celebrate the …Read more »
RAF Brize Norton 2011: Super VC-10 Lockheed L-1011 Non-Stop Action
Welcome to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, UK, home of the Vickers VC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 TriStar transports circa June, 2011. JetFlix TV videographer Chris Mak spent three days at Brize in late June of 2011 filming the comings and goings of these fabulous classic airliners. Most of the filmed flights were local flight training …Read more »
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