Written and produced by Richard Cawston.
While we argue about jumbo jets and supersonic travel, dollars for American aircraft and British aviation prestige, the airline business is booming and the men who fly the giant planes of today are more in demand than ever before.
Tonight's new version of this widely acclaimed film shows the world of the airline pilot-mostly from the cockpit of a Boeing 707 during an actual flight from London to Beirut.
Pilots of three British airlines provide the comment on their own profession.
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