GET IT FOR FREE — OR PURCHASE YOUR COPY BELOW“VARIG Lockheed L-188 Electra photo book – by Henry Tenby“ VARIG Lockheed L-188 Electra Photo Book – 58 pages all colour / First Edition by Henry Tenby: Created and printed in Canada, welcome to this special edition photo book by aviation journalist Henry Tenby to mark […]
Cathay Pacific Airlines in the 1960s By Henry Tenby Kait Kai airport Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific Airways operated a very interesting mix of classic airliners in the 1950s and 1960s, which included the Douglas DC-6, Lockheed L-188 Electra, and the famous Convair 880. Back in the 1950s and 1960s Cathay Pacific operated primarily within […]
World’s First Shuttle VARIG Celebrates 30 Years of the Ponte Aerea Story and photos by Henry Tenby Airliners Magazine, Spring 1989 In the summer of 1987, I was attending UC-Irvice earning my MBA and just completed my first year in the programme. As a 23 year old enthusiast aviation fan with a solid interest in […]
Ponte Aerea: The Brazilian Air Bridge by Henry Tenby Airline Executive, April, 1989 In the summer of 1988, I had the life-influencing opportunity to make a series of visits to VARIG Airlines in Rio to document their amazing Lockheed Electra Ponte Aerea (Air Bridge) operation which then connected Rio’s Santos Dumont Airport with Sao Paulo’s […]
Canada’s Last Passenger Electra Story and Photos by Henry Tenby Airliners Magazine, Fall 1991 Back in late 1990, I got a call from my good friend and fellow aviation journalist Ken Swartz with a story scoop. NWT Air of Yellowknife was about to retire the last of their Lockheed Electra’s and would I be interested […]
The Last Passenger Electras Earn Their Keep: The Reeve Aleutian Story by Henry Tenby Airliners Magazine, July-August, 1996 Whilst working for NWT Air in Yellowknife back in the Spring of 1996, I was able to tag along on the some of our 737-200 charters to Anchorage in support of the Arctic Winter Games that year. […]
