NZ Airline Postcards

[Dave Homewood]

Back in the olden days Air New Zealand and other NZ airlines used to print postcards, which i think must have been handed out to passengers?

I was looking at some of these - there's some examples here
www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-collectables/postcards-writing/transport/auction-610146549.htm

And I was wondering, who used to take these photos, and what sort of aircraft were they using as camera ship to photograph the likes of DC-10's Boeing 737's and 747's over the Southern Alps, which i seem to recall was often a common backdrop, etc?

[nzav8a]

From "School Journal" Part 3 No 2 1975

[Dave Homewood]

Wow, that is a fantastic article. Thanks so much for posting it Glen. What an interesting mission that was. I guess similar photos shoots were carried out for the DC-10's 747's, Friendships, etc.

[nzav8a]

I believe the DC-10 and 747's were photographed in the USA before delivery to NZ as part of the publicity/promo kits put together for the airline.

[ruakituri]

A very similar exercise was conducted when the airline adopted the pacific wave scheme, you may remember shots of the 400 flying around the Southern Alps and Mt Cook. From memory the camera ship was a 737 which had all the seats removed down one side to accommodate the photographers and all there gear. From memory no windows were removed, but could be wrong.