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AIR TO AIR Ultimate Airline Photography 170 pages all colour book by Henry Tenby

AIR TO AIR - Ultimate Airline Photography 170 pages all colour book by Henry Tenby

PURCHASE YOUR COPY BELOW – $19.95 USD + actual postage cost “AIR TO AIR – Ultimate Airline Photography“ Like no other book ever printed in the history of commercial aviation, this unique and beautifully presented all colour volume features some 200 eyeball-popping air-to-air images of classic propliners and classic jetliners taken aloft by the great […]

NWT Air welcomed its third Boeing 737 jet to Yellowknife this week with Capt. Searle Hartman and Henry Tenby

NWT Air welcomed its third Boeing 737 jet to Yellowknife this week with Capt. Searle Hartman and Henry Tenby

The Yellowknifer Newspaper, September 4, 1992 Flashback NWT Air welcomed its third Boeing 737 jet to Yellowknife this week after months of anticipation. The $6 million combination cargo-passenger aircraft means the airline won’t have to lease replacements from Echo Bay Mines while it’s two other 737s are grounded for yearly month-long inspections. “We definitely needed […]

Air Travel Time Machine | Kodachrome Memories 1942-1960 288 pages all colour book by Henry Tenby

AirTravel-TimeMachine

PURCHASE YOUR COPY BELOW – $40.95 USD + actual postage cost “AIR TRAVEL TIME MACHINE | KODACHROME MEMORIES 1942-1960“ The author has made it one of his life missions to assemble a growing collection of unique and fascinating Kodachrome images created in the mid of the last century, that were spontaneous photographic captures of every […]

Frankfurt Aviation Collectibles Show NOV 6 2021 – Show Report by Henry Tenby

Frankfurt Aviation Collectibles Show NOV 6 2021 - Show Report by Henry Tenby

On November 6, 2021 – Frankfurt: I was able to attend my first aviation collectibles show since the start of the global pandemic. It took place in Frankfurt, Germany at the Hofheim Stadthale (Community Centre) located just a few steps from the Hofheim Station. In years past the Frankfurt Aviation Collectibles shows were being held […]

Aeroflot TU-104 visit to Vancouver Airshow Sunday June 15, 1958

On Sunday June 15, 1958, Aeroflot TU-104 jetliner CCCP-175445  at the Vancouver airport airshow on Sunday, June 25, 1958. It was here that Boeing's 707 Test Pilot Tex Johnson told the TU-104 what he thought about the aircraft after having had a flight on it that day: "I have a message for the captain. Please tell him that in my twenty-one thousand hours of piloting time, the TU-104 is the sorriest damn airplane I have ever had the misfortune of flying in."

An airshow was held on Sunday June 15, 1958 at Vancouver’s Sea Island Airport as part of the Province’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The race for leadership in the passenger jetliner market was heating up in the late 1950s with numerous aircraft builders bringing brand new jet powered airliners to the forefront. The cold war realities […]