Description & Facts: www.henrytenby.com This DVD is loaded with fabulous classic propliner footage from the 1950s, and it documents how air travel was so special fifty years ago. United Airlines Boeing B-337 Stratocruisers, Douglas DC-6s, Convair CV-340s and the first generation of smokey Douglas DC-8s are all featured in the classic airline films presented herein. DVD Programs Chapter 1) United Airlines Stratocruiser to Hawaii (7 min) This mid-1950s colour airline promo film boasts of the many benefits of flying on United Airlines' double-decker Boeing 337 Stratocruisers from the US west coast to Hawaii. The film takes us along an a Stratocruiser from San Francisco to Hawaii. The film starts with the passengers checking in at San Francisco airport, where the Captain shows passengers the layout of the Stratocruiser using a large cutway airline display model of a Stratocruiser. Passengers then board, engines are started and the Stratocruiser rolls down the runway. We then see the crew on the flight deck as the aircraft departs the west coast with San Francisco below. We are then treated to all the luxuries available to passengers aboard the magestic Stratocruiser in flight over the Pacific to Hawaii. The Stratocruiser is show air-to-air over Diamond Head and over downtown Honolulu, and then landing and arriving on the ramp, where Aloha girls welcome the passengers. Chapter 2) United Airlines DC-6 The 6534 Story (29 min) This all colour film tells of the detailed story of United DC-6 ship 6534