In August of 2014 at the Abbotsford Airshow, JetFlix TV’s Henry Tenby joined along with other aviation media members for a joy ride on the Pan American liveried Douglas DC-3 owned by John Sessions’ Historical Flight Foundation of Everett, Washington. We were taken on a local area low-level sight-seeing flight aboard the lovingly restored classic …Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Lockheed C130 Hercules 1955 First Look (Previously Classified) – JetFlix TV video released
This previously classified film tells the launch story of the Lockheed C130 Hercules. Back in 1955, a new model of troop and transport plane was first flown and put under flight testing, built by Lockheed Marietta, and it was the famous Lockheed Hercules. By January of 1955, six early production A models of the C130 …Read more »
USAF B-17 Memphis Belle Flying Fortress 1940 Technicolor – JetFlix TV video released
This War Department technicolor film from World War Two was filmed with real pilots based in England flying the famous B-17 Flying Fortress “Memphis Belle”. It puts the faces of real people to the amazing story of the sacrifices made by the heroic B-17 crew members during the war, who risked their lives with each …Read more »
US Air Force Reserves Opportunities & Mock Deployment- JetFlix TV video released
For weekend warriors, the US Air Force offers reservists a wide range of interesting and exciting opportunities, as explained in this Air Force film from 1980. The film opens at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, showing C130 Hercules and C5 Galaxy of the US Air Force Air Logistics Command. Both the USAF Lockheed C-130 …Read more »
US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker 1960s – JetFlix TV video released
For the past 60 years the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker has been one of the most reliable and longest serving air-to-air inflight refueling aircraft in the US Air Force. Although the KC-135 has seen no less than three different types of engines to power the aircraft over the decades, the rugged type still serves in large …Read more »