Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 707 A20-261 was awaiting the scrapper at RAAF Amberley in Queensland, Australia when Tom Vaughan, boss of Turbine Motor Works, decided to try to rescue it. A year later, Tom and a team of engineers headed out to Amberley, together with our camera crew, whom Tom had asked to record the project....

Avion spent a lot of time at Coventry in 2000, filming Air Atlantique at work and catching the arrivals and practice display routines for the 50’s Airshow that year. The result was this Air Atlantique video. Filmed on professional digital video with superb sound throughout, it’s allways been a popular choice with...

Unlike the final days of steam railways, the passing of working propliners seems to have gone largely unrecorded. So, we're very grateful to John Tansley for capturing them on video during the late 80s and early 90s. A few years ago, avion video digitally remastered and enhanced the best of John's material and produced two pr...

From as far back as 1980, aviation journalist and photographer Ron Mak, and later on his brother Chris, recorded South American propliners in action on cine film and ultimately on digital video. Using the latest film and video restoration techniques, this DVD has some stunning images of big props at work in Venezuela, Guatema...

Using expertly restored colour cine film from BAE Systems’ archives, and with authentic sound throughout, this DVD tells the story of the BAC 1-11’s early sales success.Construction, flight testing, route proving, first flights, sales tours -they’re all in this fascinating programme covering that exciting period...

This DVD continues the story of the BAC 1-11, following the first four years of sales success that were covered in Classic Wings - BAC One-Eleven Part 1. Using digital video and restored colour film from the BAE Archives, the introduction of the Series 500 and the development of two high performance 1-11s, the Series 475 and 67...

Back in the 1970s and 80s, Miami's Corrosion Corner was famous as the best place to see veteran propliners struggling through their final days, alongside some of the earliest jetliners flying freight for carriers now long-gone. It was an amazing scene; smoke pouring from vintage jetliners straining to gain height on take off a...

December 1935 saw the first flight of an aircraft that has since outlived all expectations. Over 10,000 examples of the Douglas DC-3/C-47 were built from 1936 to 1946, with many of the C-47 military variants being converted to passenger configuration after World War Two. Dozens of DC-3's are still flying today in many countr...

For almost a decade, Ostend Airport had a fascinating cargo centre, handling everything from emergency relief flights to daily trips bringing in car parts for the nearby Volvo factory. The aircraft involved were mainly former Soviet transports or elderly 707 and DC8 freighters, making this previously little-known airport one of...

The Handley Page Herald was a tough, reliable, feederliner that earned respect from all who flew it, but never gained the success it really deserved. This DVD uses the manufacturer's cine film archive and modern digital video to bring you fascinating details of the Herald's development and service history. The Herald’s st...

To see a black and white still photo of a Viking is unusual; to watch one in action in colour, with sound, is amazing! That’s just one item in this superb collection of airliners, in service with independent operators from the fifties to the early eighties. Remember the cross-Channel air ferries, carrying cars by Bristol ...

How things change! The once vast Aeroflot fleet with its universal livery has gone, replaced by a seemingly never-ending stream of new companies and new colours. For several years now, Frank Manke at Skybird Video has been filming at airports in Russia and Eastern Europe. Avion Video have used the best of his material, featur...

This isn’t a DVD of the Bournemouth Air Festival that takes place each summer along the seafront. Instead, it’s a close up look at many of the air show participants, together with Bournemouth Airport’s normal traffic. Filmed in superb High Definition Video, there are some wonderful sequences bringing you a completely differen...

Very Big Props has a great collection of some of the largest and most complex propliners ever built; the Boeing C97, the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Douglas DC7. In one form or another, all three reigned supreme over the North Atlantic air routes and all ended up as careworn freighters trailing clouds of smoke behind t...

Preserved airliners are great; there should be more of them. But, what we really want to see is not a re-painted, highly polished, cherished machine. We want the real thing, often complete with dents and dirt, at work in its proper environment; the freight ramps and secondary airports of the world. That’s what you get ...

Remember when you came home from an airport with your ears ringing from the sound of Rolls Royce Darts and Tynes? You'll get the same effect from watching this video featuring nothing but Viscounts and Vanguards! We take a look at major Viscount operators such as BEA and British Midland, together with 70's services by Cambria...