Flying Round Alone
'Looking back. I realise how lucky I've been to avoid disaster on at least six occasions.'
Dick Smith is an Australian self-made millionaire who had a dream - to be the first person to fly a helicopter solo around the world. He collected his machine - much modified for endurance flying - from its Texas factory and set off across some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth - ice, tundra, mountains, oceans, deserts. Along the way he dropped in on Balmoral, made a forced landing in the Burmese jungle and successfully located a ship 700 miles out in the Pacific - to pick up fuel.
And as if that wasn't enough. he made a film with sound of himself (and by himself) of this unique world voyage.
Filmed and directed by DICK SMITH Presented for BBC by TONY SALMON Series editor TIM SLESSOR
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