Fox Field Strats -The Boeing Stratocruisers of the Mojave Desert 1960s-1970s | Transocean Northwest Airlines Pan Am
Presented by Henry Tenby, this video takes a look back to the fleet of Boeing Stratocruisers that were placed into long term storage in the Mojave Desert just North of Los Angeles when the aircraft were retired in the early 1960s. Stratocruisers of Transocean Airways, Northwest Airlines, BOAC and Pan American lived out their final …Read more »
Buffalo Airways Lockheed L-188 Electra visit to Vancouver 2021
Reported by Henry Tenby: Back in the mid 1980s NWT Air used to operate their L-188 Electra aircraft into Vancouver on a regular basis on the trans Con cargo run called Black Label. So the last time I saw a Lockheed L-188 Electra in Vancouver was mid 1980s, that was 35 years ago! Yesterday Buffalo …Read more »
Trans-Canada Air Lines Vickers Viscount Ground Controlled Approach
This film dates from the mid 1950s and explains the operations of GCA “Ground Controlled Approach” whereby the air traffic controllers user radar and navigation services of the day to guide aircraft in for landing when weather and visibility conditions are poor and visual flight rules are not possible. The film was made in partnership …Read more »
Tandem Aero IL-18 Pleasure Flight for Aviation Fans from Chisnau Moldova
Today it is essentially impossible for the hard core aviation enthusiast to secure a flight in an IL-18. Back in September of 2010, a group of aviation flight hounds took part in a series of pleasure flights aboard one of the world’s last passenger carrying IL-18s. They chartered Tandem Aero IL-18 ER-ICB from Chisinau, Moldova …Read more »
Bronson Creek Bust Ups
JetFlix TV’s Henry Tenby provides a fascinating look back at the white-knuckled propliner operations at Bronson Creek airstrip in Northwestern BC back in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time this isolated land-locked 5000 ft. gravel airstrip was the site of one of the largest active gold mines in North America, the Snip Gold Mine. …Read more »
FAA Convair 440 N104 Boston to Washington ATC Technology circa 1959
This publicity film from the late 1950s was made to showcase a flight between Boston and Washington, DC on a Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Convair 440 N104 to explain the advancements in computer technology for ATC flight tracking using computer generated flight strips. Keen observers will notice an American Airlines short tail Boeing 707 making …Read more »
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