Big Northern Recips – USA and Canada Summer 2007
In the summer of 2007 Dutch aviation videographer Chris Mak ventured up north to the Canada’s Yukon and Alaska in search of vintage propliners doing yeoman’s service as cargo haulers and water bombers. Like the Northern explorers of the past, he struck Gold! And we’re pleased as hell to be able share his amazing finds …Read more »
Reeve Aleutian: On Board the Super Electra II
Reeve Aleutian Airways of Anchorage, Alaska, the last operator of passenger configured Lockheed Super Electra II on the planet. We’ll take you to Anchorage to sample Reeve Electra winter and summer operations first hand. from both the flight deck and the passenger cabin! And the Alaskan scenery and snow-capped mountains is nothing short of spectacular! …Read more »
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 »
Buffalo Airways: Propliners of the North
The world’s biggest operator of 1950s generation Propliners of the North aircraft is none other than Buffalo Airways, based in Yellowknife, in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories. Owned by NWT aviation entrepreneur Joe McBryan, Buffalo Airways operates an impressive fleet of cargo DC4s, DC3s, Curtiss C46 Commandos, and firefighter PBY Cansos. Also the Douglas and Curtis …Read more »
Hawker Siddeley HS748 in Canada
Few aircraft are more at home in the harsh arctic and the wilds of Northern Canada than the reliable, rugged Hawker Siddeley HS748. Many of these excellent, British-built propliners served in Canada over the years, as operators found them ideal on short, gravel strips. Their Dart engines boast plenty of power, and their 11,000-pound payload …Read more »
Vickers Viscounts and Vanguard Coventry 1996
In the mid 1990s, most of the freight that passed through Coventry’s night-time freight hub transported aboard vintage propliners. Including Vickers Viscounts and at the time, the world’s last operational Vickers Vanguard. The frenzied, nocturnal, propliner activities which took place from this humble, ramshackle rural location. It captured by aviation videographer Henry Tenby, during several …Read more »
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