Whenever the EUFA Cup Final's in town, the nearest airport gets inundated with unusual airliners and it was Manchester's turn in 2003 - all captured on DVD and now available at a great value price.
Over 200 extra flights, arriving over a 15 hour period, brought 33,000 fans to Manchester on the 28th May 2003 and our camera crew were there from dawn to dusk capturing this exclusive airside footage. It's hard to describe the scene with so many airliners parked at the airport, so why not see for yourself!
What a show, what a DVD - big props and warbirds shot from right beside the runway and it's now at an absolute bargain price.
This is our favourite kind of airshow DVD; no music, no 'talking heads,' just stunning images of some fabulous aircraft. The shot of an Anson in RAF colours puttering in over the threshold says it all; vintage action taken with modern professional digital video cameras - the best of both worlds.
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.
Here are some of the others: BKS Ambassador, Silver City Heron, BUA DC3s Carvairs & Superfreighters, Martinair DC3 DC4 & DC8, Euravia Constellation, Alidair Viscount, Redcoat CL44, British Eagle Britannia, Spantax CV990A, TAT F27, Balair DC6, Court 1-11, Airwork and Invicta Vikings.
Like all our Airport Action DVDs, this one's filmed out on the ramp and you can be there too, without getting burnt to a crisp like we did, and for only £12:95 plus shipping.
Filmed in 2004, holiday charters predominate of course and there's a great mix of many of the major, and minor, leisure airlines operating at the time.
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Our 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.
We 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 our Air Atlantique video. Filmed on professional digital video with superb sound throughout, it’s always been a popular choice with many big prop fans and those wanting a souvenir of their own visit to Air Atlantique.
It’s available with our Super Connie Rescue programme which tells the story of the recovery of a Dominican L1049 and its dramatic ferry flight to Avra Valley for restoration.
Go back in time to Ringway in the 1950s and the days of Dakotas, Super Constellations and DC7Cs. The ramp also has an Air Kruise Wayfarer, Dan Air York and the last DH86 four-engined biplane airliner in the world - just a few of the amazing fifties airliners in action, in colour, with sound! Plus a look at Burtonwood’s Open Days in 1956/7 with WB50s, C97s, C124s and more.
There's the first BOAC 707, diversions from a fog-bound Heathrow and some of those “I remember that!” aircraft, like an Air Links DC3 and an Autair Ambassador.
Charter operators include; Britannia, Lloyd International and Monarch Britannias, British Eagle, Channel and Laker 1-11s and Dan Air Comets, for example.
In our brief look at the 1970s and 1980s, there’s still time to review the first BOAC 747 arrival and to watch another kind of wide-body; the Guppy transporter. Canadian favourites at Manchester, the 747s of CP Air and Wardair are also seen, along with Laker’s famous Skytrain DC10.
If you like Soviet airliners and you want to see exciting close up action with types ranging from an AN2 to an AN124, this DVD is an absolute bargain.
For only £12.95 plus shipping, you get some of the best, most dramatic images of Soviet aircraft [and some interesting bizjets] that we've ever filmed. Watching a venerable IL62 arrive at night, or the Captain of an AN24 kicking the tires before taking off for some virtually unknown destination on the edge of the Black Sea, you really get a sense of being right there out on the ramp.



