AIR TO AIR – Ultimate Airline Photography 170 pages all colour book by Henry Tenby:

Like no other book ever printed in the history of commercial aviation, this unique and beautifully presented all colour volume features some 200 eyeball-popping air-to-air images of classic propliners and classic jetliners taken aloft by the great air-to-air photo masters of the late 20th century, including Stephen Piercey, Paul Duffy, Bob Shane, Ron Kosys, Chris Mak, Henry Tenby, Chuck Stewart Jr. and many others.

This book is loaded with air-to-air beauties of the following aircraft: Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Boeing 720, Boeing 737, Boeing 747 Classic, 747SP, DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, DC-7, DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, Britt-Norman Islander, De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, DHC-3 Otter, DHC-6 Twin Otter, Beech 18, Beech 99, Fokker F-27, F-28, F-50, Grumman Goose, Lockheed Hercules, PBY-5A Catalina, Convair CV-580, CV-640, Curtiss C-46, Hawker Siddeley HS-748, Lockheed Electra, Lockheed Constellation, Vickers Viscount, Vickers Vanguard, Martin 404, De Havilland Comet, Sud Aviation Se-210 Caravelle, Junkers Ju-52, Bristol Freighter, ATL98 Carvair, Dassault Mercure, Bristol Britannia, Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, De Havilland Trident, NAMC YS-11, Canadair CL-44, KC-97, Antonov An-2, An-26, An-124, Ilyushin IL-18, IL-14, Shorts Belfast, B-17G, C-117, and Shorts Sunderland Flying Boats with images taken in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

Reader Testimonials
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Besides the mainline equipment from the Sixties through the Nineties, (this book features) classics including the Curtiss C-46 Commando, Douglas DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, DC-7, Lockheed Constellation and Electra plus the L-100 Hercules, Martin 404, Convair-Liner (in various forms), Bristol Britannia, Vickers Viscount and Vanguard, and a variety of ‘bush’ types. Captions are extensive and informative, often including details of the photography session such as location and crew names, chase plane, as well as revealing how the shot was captured. For a very modest price, here is a treasure trove of excellent and unusual colour photography of airliners from around the world.
John Wegg, Editor, Airways, A Global Review of Commercial Flight, Sandpoint, ID, USA

AIR TO AIR – Ultimate Airline Photography 170 pages all colour book by Henry Tenby:

Henry Tenby has put together a book far greater than the limitations of its compact landscape format would imply. It provides 171 air-to-air studies of post-war classic propliners and jet airliners with fascinating captions relating why, how, and where the image was taken. Read assiduously, the content is worthy of close scrutiny wherein lie many lessons for erstwhile aspirants to the magic arts of real photography.
David Baker, Editor, Aviation News Magazine, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK

Picked up a nice little book today at the Aviation MegaStore near Amsterdam IAP, “Air-to-Air” by Henry Tenby. The book opens with a dedication to Stephen Piercey, a good start, and a clue for the content: a massive amount of propliners and OldJets. Besides loads of photographs, the captions are very informative and bring back memories to airlines and thier hardware plus we get to know some ace air-to-air photographers as well. With a modest price, you cannot go wrong with this one in my opinion.
Just to make sure, as a disclaimer, I have no interest in the book nor the author.
Ruud Leeuw, www.RuudLeeuw.com website

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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 the region of Southern Asia and to Tokyo. We hope you enjoy this nice selection of vintage Cathay Pacific Airways photos. Also included are a few other vintage photos from Kai Tak airport in the 1950s.

Cathay Pacific DC-6 VR-HFG at Tokyo Haneda circa 1960.

Henry Tenby has been collecting 35mm aircraft slides since the early 1980s, and has amassed the collection of vintage Japanese airline slides presented in this posting from his collection.

I am looking to purchase 35mm Kodachrome aircraft slide collections. Please contact me: henrytenby at gmail dot com

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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 the Lockheed Electra, I established contact VARIG’s North American Vice President Mr. Werner Leghein at his office in downtown Los Angeles. I asked if he would assist me in sending my request to the airline’s head office in Rio asking if they would support my efforts to visit them with the purpose of preparing an in-depth article on VARG’s Ponte Aerea Electra operation.

VARIG responded positively, and it was the start of many trips and numerous friendships made with the airline. On my first trip down to Rio in early July, 1987, VARIG provided first class tickets from LAX. As a student I couldn’t believe my luck!

Those were the days when airlines would graciously help aviation journalists, a great rarity in this day and age! VARIG is no more, and times have changed, but the article below takes us back to a time when it seemed anything was possible for budding aviation fan and journalist.

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 Congonhas airport.

During these visits I made several flights on VARIG’s Electras and met with senior VARIG management including Manoel Torres, Schedules Manager, and Harro Fouquet, Planning Director.

As a 24 year old university student, my VARIG scoop was an accomplishment I was proud of. During these visits I made many friends at VARIG, but have lost contact over the many decades that have since passed.

In 1992, the VARIG Electra operation came to an end after three decades of glorious service, as the reliable Lockheed classics were replaced by Boeing 737-300s. The article below was prepared for Airline Executive magazine, and details the history and business case challenges of the day for the Ponte Aerea.

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 in doing the article?

Ken put me in contact with the company’s General Manager Grey Cooper, and arrangements were put in place for me to travel up to Yellowknife to document the very last day of NWT Air Electra operations on February 1, 1991.

Not only did I have a fabulous visit riding the aircraft’s sked up to Coppermine and Cambridge Bay on that last day, the visit also provided me with the opportunity to meet a number of the airline’s key staff. I was also able to shoot video of my visit which is available as a top selling aviation DVD.

Later that year when my aircraft leasing job came to an end with Corsair in Bellevue, WA, I was able to leverage my contacts at NWT Air into what would become a six year employment stretch with NWT Air, based and living in Yellowknife! Anyhow, here’s the article from Airliners magazine that started it all.

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.

Our ground handling in Anchorage was provided by Reeve Aleutian Airways, and this connection afforded me the amazing opportunity to personally meet Reeve Aleutian Airways owners Dick Reeve, and his sister Janice. It was their father Bob Reeve who founded the company many decades prior.

Dick and Janice welcomed two visits I made to their airline during 1996, in the capacity of a super keen enthusiast and journalist. I was also able to shoot video of my visits documenting the Lockheed Electra flight experience, which is available as a top selling aviation DVD.

I am forever grateful for their amazing Alaskan hospitality all those years ago. Sadly the airline closed down, and even today Reeve Aleutian is fondly remembered by many as an Alaskan institution. The article that follows takes us back to when the Reeve’s Electras were the last sked passenger examples on the planet.