Henry Tenby has been documenting the commercial airline scene for airline publications worldwide since the mid 1980s.
I recently came across some old kodachrome slides taken at Miami Airport in the early 1960s, that show the development and expansion that took place at the terminal and observation deck between 1962 and 1965. From the two main images below, we can see that the gate area finger was doubled in width, which meant […]
Story and photos by Henry Tenby, as presented in the October, 2013 issue of Airways Magazine. Some would have thought the era of passenger carrying JT3 powered Douglas DC-8s came to an end many years ago. Operating out of the limelight and under the radar of many, Little Rock based Air Transport International (ATI) has […]
DATE OF VISIT: November 27, 2015 Hearty congratulations are offered to ANA for their ANA FESTA shop at Tonkyo Haneda airport Terminal 2. The shop is easily found on the lower arrivals floor of the terminal. Before I get to the review I need to point out one interesting fact. The Japanese as a people […]
DATE OF VISIT: November 27, 2015 In the lower arrivals level of the JAL Terminal 1 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport there is a JAL Store inside the pilot gift shop. It is pretty easy to find the shop, and I have provided a photo below showing the front of the shop. The centre-piece attraction of […]
After waiting many decades, in December of 2015, I finally had the opportunity to spend a morning aircraft spotting at Tokyo’s amazing Haneda airport. I waited for a crystal blue sky day, and easily took the train from Shinjuku Station in central Tokyo (journey time was about 45 minutes each way, which included changing trains […]
The 2015 Frankfurt aviation weekend was a raving success. Like every year, on the first weekend of November we have two large airline conventions in Frankfurt which attract airline buffs from all over Europe, North America and Asia. The airline slide convention organized by Chris Witt is always well attend with slide punters buying, selling […]
The Douglas DC-10 faded into the limelight in 2015, when Bangladesh Biman went down in the airline geek history books for operating the world’s last scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-10 aircraft. Some forty five years earlier on July 23, 1970, Douglas staged a gala rollout lunch ceremony for the first DC-10 to a specially […]
When you purchase a new car the salesman takes great pride, pomp and ceremony in handing you the keys to your new set of wheels. Did you know the same applies when you pick your shiny new Boeing jetliner from the Boeing factory in Seattle? We’re not sure how long this tradition dates back, but […]
The ANA Festa shop at Tokyo’s Haneda airport is an Aladdin’s Cave for airline enthusiasts that happen to find themselves at this knockout Japanese airport. Quick note: If you enjoy this article, please take a second to share it on Facebook or Twitter (using the share buttons on this page) so other people can benefit […]
It is our pleasure to present the following guest blog post and photos by our good friend Ron Kosys. If you enjoy this article, please take a second to share it on Facebook or Twitter (using the share buttons on this page) so other people can benefit as well. Now to Ron’s article: Fitted in […]
Guest report and photos by Ron Kosys. On November 14, 1978, aviation photographer Ron Kosys had the good fortune to be in Cape Town, South Africa, and happened up the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly on a Court Line S-61 as an observer during a non-scheduled maintenance flight to a super tanker. If you enjoy this […]
Report and photos by Henry Tenby A brand new passenger airport and terminal building has opened for business at Wonsan, DPRK North Korea. It is believed construction on the new facility completed in the summer of 2015, and the first ever passengers to use the airport arrived from Pyongyang on September 24, 2015. A large […]
Back in the 1940s and 1950s, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) contracted with a number of professional freelance film camera operators and movie makers to document the development of civil aviation in Canada. During these formative years, travel by air was a very new and novel means of transport that the travelling public […]
It is with great sadness that I must convey that our friend Clint Groves passed away peacefully in his home in Lake Isabella on Tuesday morning, June 30, 2015. Born in Louisville KY, in 1943, Clint Graduated from Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, TN in 1961 and then attended the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, […]
In the late 1960s, Israel’s State airline EL AL endured several violent terrorist attacks on its aircraft at foreign airports in Europe, all instigated by Yasser Arafat’s PLO or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Security had never been a second thought for the airline, ever since the company’s founding, which coincided with […]
