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...

The two ever-popular Alaskan videos, filmed in 1999, are now re-released in a great value double DVD set that has two and three-quarter hours of superb airliner action featuring big jets and big propliners, as well as exciting floatplane action and wonderful scenery. Here's a full description of the original videos: Ai...

Filmed airside and beside the runways, just a few weeks ago, this DVD brings you the best of the action at Schiphol, including close up action on the cargo ramps, featuring 747 400Fs of Jade, Great Wall, Emirates, China Southern and more. Trijets abound at Amsterdam; we have a last look at Northwest's DC10s, a Globe Jet Trista...

"It's a Jumbo Jet!" How many times have you heard that cry in airport lounges around the world? More than 30 years on, the impact of Boeing's first wide-bodied jetliner still lingers. Filmed from 2000 to 2003, these 90 minutes of superb action video celebrate our continuing amazement that these things actually fly! Shot airsi...

Heathrow is the world’s busiest international airport, with a constant procession of airliners using both its main runways and a huge programme of development to continue to meet the needs of 21st Century passengers. With the kind co-operation of BAA Heathrow, we went airside to bring you superb airliner action from around th...

Japan’s airports are simply stuffed with wide-bodied airliners, either on domestic flights or on international services to Tokyo Narita; one of the world’s major destinations. No less than six airports are featured in this one hour and forty-five minute DVD; Osaka [Itami], Okinawa, Tokyo’s domestic airport at Haneda, Hokkaido ...

Rhodes has it all - constant sunshine, amazing airside access, and some fascinating holiday airlines. Mix that up with our professional cameras and sound and you've got a great new programme on DVD or video. Working all around the ramp and beside the runway, we can bring you views that you just don't get from an airport resta...

Released on video in 1999, this programme is now out on DVD. It was the first programme we filmed and edited digitally, so the DVD quality is excellent. Filmed over a nine month period, it has the best of the airside action at EMA and is a worthy addition to our 'Airports in the Nineties' range. Features include: A detailed ...

Frankfurt’s fabulous viewing facilities always made it a magnet for airliner enthusiasts and we shot two videos there in the 1990s. Now we’ve combined the best of each one in this new 80 minute DVD, with an emphasis on those airliners no longer seen today. Back in 1993, JT8D-powered 737-200s, 727s and DC9s were comm...

Stansted seems to be one of those airports that doesn’t get a great deal of video coverage. So when our all-airside video was released in 1999, it created a lot of interest. Now it’s been re-released on DVD as part of our Airports in the Nineties series, bringing you higher quality images and menu selection. The airline scene...

It’s only ten years or so since we filmed the aircraft on this DVD at Manchester Airport and it’s amazing just how many once familiar airlines, colour schemes and equipment have now gone forever. Fortunately we can take you back to the late Nineties, with 75 minutes of airside action that has not previously been released on VHS...

When this Miami video was released in 1996, it was an instant success with its mix of Latin American airlines, US carriers and the last of MIA’s famous propliners. Now it’s been re-released on DVD as part of our Airports in the Nineties series, bringing you higher quality images and menu selection. It’s only abo...

When this Sharjah video was released in 1997, its focus on a wide variety of Soviet freighters transporting goods from duty-free Dubai, made it extremely popular. Now it’s been re-released on DVD as part of our Airports in the Nineties series, bringing you higher quality images and menu selection. So many of the airlines that ...

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...

“There’s gold in them thar hills!” The cry that started many a gold rush well over a century ago may be long gone, but there was still sufficient gold at Bronson Creek, British Columbia in the 1990s to make it worth facing the daunting challenge of how to support mining operations in this vast Canadian mountain wilderness. Ama...

The 2003 Classic Airshow was a must for all propliner and vintage jet fans. With three cameras capturing all the action, this is a superb souvenir of possibly the last show at Coventry. Air Atlantique always excel in getting unusual aircraft at their displays, and the DC 2 in KLM colours was one of the stars of the show. We've...

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...

This new DVD recreates the sights and sounds of Gatwick, from as far back as 1959 right up to the late eighties. Using high-quality techniques and painstaking attention to detail, ancient cine film has been digitally transformed, to take you back in time. Gatwick always had such a variety of interesting airlines and aircraft....

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 ...

Istanbul’s Attaturk airport is the major gateway to Turkey, but there’s another airport serving the Turkish capital that’s less well known. Opened in 2001, Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport is steadily attracting more and more users of its superb facilities. The airport’s low fuel costs and handling cha...

Back in the fifties, big props reigned supreme and we mean big, as BOAC and Pan Am Stratocruisers dominate the ramp alongside DC6s, DC7s, Super Constellations, Yorks, Vikings and Ambassadors. Like the rest of the DVD, it’s all in full colour with authentic sound throughout. The early sixties brought the whine of the turbo...

Now we can take you back in time, with the help of some enthusiasts' cine film, that has been digitally restored and matched to authentic sound. This production hasn't been made by filming a flickering projection screen. With a specialist 'Telecine' conversion process, also used by the BBC and by ITV, we can digitally transfer...

Second runway, second look, at one of the UK's premier international airports. Our first Manchester video got us as close to any runway as you can get. This new 90 minute video does the same, but doubles the dose! With fantastic airside locations, you'll really experience what it's like to be out there, with both runways fully...

As one of Britain’s biggest airports, Manchester has a long and fascinating history, now explored in this full colour DVD using expertly restored cine film and authentic sound. Go back in time to Ringway in the 1950s and the days of Dakotas, Super Constellations and DC7Cs. See inside the original 1938 control tower and the ‘ne...

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...

Our popular Kai Tak videos, Hong Kong 98 and Airport Action Hong Kong, are now out on DVD, with menu selection, crisp digital pictures and superb sound. From Tristars to 777s, with great airside locations and an exciting flightdeck ride on a Virgin A340 past the Checkerboard, this really is The Best of Kai Tak. Here's a full...

We start with some wonderful film taken at Blackbushe in 1959; Falcon, Continental, Orion, Pegasus and Eagle Vikings, Dan Air Yorks, Bristol Freighters and Ambassadors and lots more, all in colour, as is the rest of this DVD, of course. Then we’re off to look at many UK Airports, 12 in all, plus Dublin and Shannon, during the...

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 ...

The latest in our ‘Airliners at Work’ series, this review of veteran turboprops will have your ears ringing to the sound of Darts, Tynes and Allison 501s! Featured on the DVD are a great variety of turboprops, including: A close up look at an Africargo CL44 being loaded, pushed back and then attempting and failing to take off...

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...