The history of airlines told through my collection of 400 scale diecast airliner models.
Mexicana Goes Private Pt2: 1993-1996
The reimagination of Mexicana’s image from 1991 onwards had been a great success but unfortunately…
Mexicana Goes Private Pt1: 1989-93
The deregulation of the Mexican domestic market in late 1988 was to provide both opportunities…
Stretch Stopgaps: National’s Super Sixties
The stretch DC-8 super 61/63s were the first ‘Jumbo Jets’, indeed Flying Tigers even had…
Shanghai Trijets: The MD-11 in China
The MD-11 as a passenger aircraft was not a wild success. Failing initially to meet…
Northwest’s Orphan Mad Dogs
Deregulation brought incredible turbulence to the previously rather placid US airline system and this was…
Dutch Jungle-Jets: Aero Perú Fellowships
The Dutch Fokker 28 Fellowship proved to be a hardy design that after first flying…
Qantas’ Aboriginal Ties: Wunala Dreaming
The relationship between the, principally white, settlers of Australia and the native Aboriginal population has…
Super Advanced: Cruzeiro & VARIG 737-200s
From the mid-1970s the Boeing 737-200 Advanced model became the backbone of the fleets of…
Emirates’ Boeing A340s!
It isn’t often you see a company selling its competitor’s products, especially when they are…
Royal Regret: Canada 3000’s Calamity
Following Canadian’s takeover of Wardair in 1989, Canada 3000 would quickly grow to become Canada’s…
C3 to India: The Rise & Fall of Canada 3000
Deregulation has brought its share of turbulence to the Canadian aviation scene as it has…
Multimark to Motionmark: CP’s DC-10s
CP Air had been solidly profitable throughout the 1960s and first half of the 1970s,…