PURCHASE YOUR COPY BELOW – $36.95 USD + actual postage cost “THE FIRST BLUE BOOK FOR DISPLAY MODEL COLLECTORS“ Aircraft Display Model Collector, Investor & Appraisal Guide – 162 pages all colour / First Edition by Henry Tenby: CLICK HERE for purchase options Created and printed in Canada, welcome to this, the first essential guide […]
by Francis Thompson, Norther News Service, Monday, August 3, 1992 Yellowknife Talking to Henry Tenby is like discovering a new and exotic culture. Tenby is an aviation enthusiast, and airplanes occupy most of his waking life. He works for an airline, builds model airplanes in his spare time, spends his evenings down by the Air […]
Schiphol Airport Gets Top Marks As Rated By World Travel Enthusiast Henry Tenby As an avid world traveller for most of the half century I have been on this planet, and a full-fledged airline freak, I have spent a lot of time over the passing decades visiting airports for fun, travel, leisure and business. I […]
FLASHBACK 1974: AIR CANADA CAPTAIN J. R. DESMARIAS RECALLS THE AIRLINE’S HISTORY WITH THIS REMARKABLE TURBO-PROP AIRLINER CLICK HERE to read about the Air Canada Vanguard Last Flight The landing of two Air Canada Viscounts at Toronto and Montreal April, 27 marked the retirement of the short-haul aircraft that have been a familiar sight in […]
CLICK HERE for travel agent display models report from Amsterdam 2019 show For more information about the Amsterdam Aviation Fair please visit their website at www.aviationfair.com (Please see bottom of page for 17 minute full version of the above show video) I had the opportunity to attend the 2019 Amsterdam Aviation Fair, this being their […]
CLICK HERE for full report from Amsterdam 2019 show For show information please visit the Amsterdam Aviation Fair website at www.aviationfair.com The second annual Amsterdam Aviation Fair took place at the Van der Valk Hotel Schiphol A4 on Sunday, February 24, 2019. For collectors of travel agent models and aircraft display models, this was an […]
In early November of 2018, my good friend Andreas Stryk drove me and another good friend, Niels Dam from Amsterdam by car from Frankfurt to the Hermeskeil aviation museum, which is a 2 hour road journey at a leisure driving pace. We allocated a full day trip for our museum visit from Frankfurt, as we […]
About a one hour drive east along the Trans Canada freeway from Vancouver city centre, at Langley airport resides the Canadian Museum of Flight and their winderful collection of Canadian aviation aircraft and artifacts. The museum is truly a labour of love for the many dedicated volunteers and fans that keep the museum going. My […]
During the early 1970s when the Vietnam War was raging in Vietnam, Taipei was a strong US ally and their international airport at Taipei (Sung Shan) was a major depot and transit point for the US military. As is clearly evident in the colour slides taken in 1971 by the late Rick Wargo, we can […]
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 […]
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 […]
Filmed by Billy Hodson on the Pyongyang ramp, we witness the 40 aviation fans board the Air Koryo IL-76 on September 18, 2014 for their 30 minute pleasure flight. Our guide Miss Kim runs up to camera man number two Henry Tenby, who is close to the IL-76, and tells him to come closer to […]
