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 »
Yearly Archives: 2017
Flughafen Frankfurt Main Airport Operations 1970 – JetFlix TV video released
This neat little film takes us to Flughafen Frankfurt Main circa 1970 to witness the arrival of Lufthansa’s first Boeing 747 wide-body aircraft. Back then Frankfurt was not the leading international traffic centre that it is today, although it was still a rather busy airport within Continental Europe. It was Lufthansa’s main operations base, but …Read more »
Building the Douglas DC-8 and test-flights (1959) – JetFlix TV video released
This 1950s airline promo film shows us the final assembly and early flight tests of the prototype Douglas DC-8 jetliner to roll off the Long Beach assembly line. Back then, airliner test pilots had to wear helmets during the test flights, to protect themselves from an airborne evacuation. This film opens with showing the Douglas …Read more »
Trans Canada Air Lines Flight Attendants 1950s – JetFlix TV video released
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendants 1950s This interesting film about Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight Attendants in the 1950s is now streaming on JetFlix.TV. This film was digitized as a part of Air Canada’s archives some years ago, which was a massive undertaking that we completed, but we never presented this show on DVD. We now …Read more »
Getting Canada Off The Ground 1972 – JetFlix TV video released
Getting Canada Off the Ground Circa 1972 This 1972 film is part of Air Canada’s historical film archives that we digitized in Ottawa several years back, that we did not release on DVD. We are pleased to announce it is now available for streaming here at www.JetFlix.TV Back in 1972 the Air Traffic Controllers in …Read more »
Assignment Jet Colorama US Navy Blue Angels F-11 Tiger 1960s – JetFlix TV video released
Back in the early 1960s Kodak partnered with the US Navy Blue Angels to create a massive billboard photo mural to appear in Grand Central Station in New York City. This effort was documented in a short film that explained how a special aviation air-to-air photographer travelled to Naval Air Station Key West in Florida …Read more »