Third of 11 programmes on the history of aviation.

Flying between countries and continents is an accepted way of life to millions of people. But as their airliners cruise along at hundreds of miles an hour, tens of thousands of feet above the earth, how many spare a thought for those early pioneers whose trailblazing flights paved the way for air transport as we know it today? This documentary tells the story of aviation pioneers Allcock and Brown who, in 1919, first flew across the Atlantic and Charles Lindbergh who did the journey solo in 1927, long before there was passenger aircraft, capable of spanning the great divide. Adventurers went on to fly over the Poles and Everest. Narrated by Anthony Quayle.
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)