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High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

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28/10/2009

BBC Four - High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

A celebration of the golden age of air travel when Britain ruled the skies.

Documentary celebrating the golden age of air travel when, in the 1920s and 1930s, Britain ruled the skies, and style and glamour were a passport to adventure.

Documentary which tells the story of the golden age of British aviation and of how the original 'jet set' shaped air travel for generations to come. In Britain in the 1920s and '30s a revolution took place that would change forever our perspective on the world. While the country was in the grip of recession, dashing pilots and daring socialites took to the air, pushed back boundaries and forged new links across the globe. The era of commercial air travel was born.

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