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.

Air France Boeing 707-328 with Dion Di Mucci singing Ruby Ruby in 1962. Nice interior cabin footage and out the window wing and engine views.

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.

Air France Sud SE-210 Caravelle III F-BJTM (c/n 144) "Maine"

Scopitone video from 1964, featuring the French girl group, "Les Parisiennes". This aircraft, "Miss Poitou", was delivered to Air France on 10/11/60, and served with the airline until 1979. Broken up in 1980, the nose section and cockpit of this aircraft remain extant in a private collection at La Ferte-Alais airport. Watch for the two L-1649A Starliners and a mid 1960's coach.

This DVD is available from AirlineHobby.com DVDs. These 1950s era films capture the development, manufacture, flight test, and airline operations of the Boeing 707 and 720. All of the early Boeing 707 and 720 customers are represented including Pan Am, Continental Airlines, TWA, American Airlines, Braniff, Varig, Air France, Aer Lingus, United Airlines, BOAC, Sabena, South African Airways, and others. DVD highlights include test flying both the 707 and 720 from the California high desert at Edwards Air Force base, President Eisenhower’s December, 1959, eleven nation tour (Operation Monsoon) aboard the first MATS VC137A, the delivery of the first Qantas Boeing 707, the May 28, 1959, Boeing 707 intercontinental route proving flight from Seattle to Rome direct (with Boeing President William Allen aboard), Sabena’s remarkable 707 operations during the Congo evacuations of 1960, delivery of Irish International’s first Boeing 720 in the Fall of 1960, and their subsequent crew training with the aircraft in Tuscon, and a lot more!

Airline videographer Henry Tenby then takes us for a 3-day visit to Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), back when many of the Chinese domestic airlines were still using Soviet aircraft. The stars of the show are the Tu154s of China United Airlines, China Southwest, and Sichuan Airlines. Great noise! The action is further spiced up by China General Yak-42s, a Vietnam Airlines Tu134, and more Tu154 action served up by Aeroflot, Air Volga, and Baikal Airlines. Additional domestic Chinese dishes include Shanghai Airlines 757, China Northwest MD80, BAe 146 and A300, Wuhan and Yunnan 737-300s, Air China 747SP, and lots of China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines fleet action. The second half of the DVD serves up a generous helping of non-stop, jet action filmed from various scenic locations at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport, back in 1995 and 1997. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways’ fleet mixes company with Kai Tak regulars including 747s of Mandarin Airlines (747SP), China Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Air China, Thai, United, KAL, Canadian, Polar Air Cargo, Air France, British Asia Airways, Air France, and Singapore Airlines, in addition to MD11s of Garuda, China Eastern, Philippine Air Lines ... and more!