Henry Tenby has been documenting the commercial airline scene for airline publications worldwide since the mid 1980s.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s aircraft manufacturers devised special engine pods so that passenger jetliners could easily transport a spare engine between locations, often during the course of a schedule flight. The first generation jetliners including the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were factory engineered for this special engine carrying capability. Special hard points […]
Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu rose to prominence in public awareness after the Japanese attacked the US military installations at Pearl Harbour and the nearby airfields on Oahu, in the Hawaiian Islands. The attacked occurred on December 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy” as famously proclaimed by US President Roosevelt, and […]
Airliner World Magazine February, 2017 Story and photos by Henry Tenby For fans of Russian aviation, October 9, 2016 marked a major milestone when the last ever scheduled flight of a Tupolev Tu-154 took place, bringing an end to 44 years of scheduled airline service for the reliable, classic Russian tri-jet. Belarus national airline Belavia […]
Very recently I came across a very neat little display of models, photos and ephemera charting the aviation history of Las Vegas McCarran Airport when I passed through the airport. As you come up from the underground train when you arrive at the terminal and gate area where the Air Canada flights operate from, walk […]
Vancouver based Henry Tenby has launched the world’s first on demand streaming service for aviation fans, and the new JetFlix.TV platform currently features over 70 full length aviation movies which members can view by paying a low monthly fee, similar to the Netflix business model. According to JetFlix.TV founder Henry Tenby, “our classic airline movies […]
In the early 1970s, Bavaria focused their operations at Munich specializing in holiday charters to Mediterranean sun destinations, and by 1972, the airline had a fleet of seven brand new BAC One Elevens. D-AILY featured in the airlines promotional materials, and I recently came across some interesting 35mm slides produced by Bavaria to promote their […]
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 […]
