9G-AXB Meridian Airways DC-8-63F landing at Kent International (Manston) airport on Sunday 23rd May 2010. Videographer not known.

Anthony Kay's video of 9G-AXD Meridian Airways DC-8-63F making a very smokey departure from a very windy Kent International (Manston) airport on Sunday 7th march 2010

London/Heathrow action from the late 60s. Watch for a Swissair CV-990, Aeroflot IL-62, Aer Lingus 720, and if you blink, you'll miss the Pan Am DC-8.

Watch for a TWA 707-331B, Air Canada DC-8-43, Lufthansa 727-100, etc, all in LIVING COLOUR taken at Paris Orly Airport in 1965! Source of footage is not known.

http://henrytenby.com/Books/AIR-AIRbook.html Air-to-Air: Ultimate Airline Photography By Henry Tenby, published by AirlineFan.com Press 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 Bristol Britannias, Boeing 707s and DC-8s, Convairs, Electras, DC-3s and many other fabulous classic airliners. Fascinating captions and an indepth introduction reveal the challenges of this unique and admired artform.

Produced by French TV, this news report from Kinshasa explains the current state of the airline industry in the Congo. The Congo based airlines operate with patched up Russian built An-24s and IL-18s, or old 727s purchased out of the Mojave desert. The country lacks basic airline safety regulations: this news report shows people living under old aircraft hulks, people wandering around the aircraft operations area, and aircraft parts being sold without documentation and proper storage. It really is amazing to see how backwards the avaition scene in the Congo is today. The news report also features interviews Stavros Paparoannog, Director of Kinshasa based Hewa Bora Airways.

A free flight aboard an American Overseas Airways B-377 Stratocruiser was the prize for a lucky passenger in this early 1950s newsreel.

Turkey's growing private charter market and Chapman Freeborn Airchartering have attracted the spotlight of the national media in recent weeks. www.chapman-freeborn.com