Portrait of a Flyer
[| HE central figure in the BBC’s TransAtlantic Pilot, an hour-long _ programme to be broadcast by 2YA at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, February 24, is George Campbell, a Canadian Scot and one of the youngest airline pilots on the TransAtlantic route. This is a professional pértrait and is based largely on actual conversations with him recorded in the cabin of a Trans-Canada North Star Skyliner flying two miles above sea level. To collect the material, Archie Lee, the producer, and Chris Angell, the recording engineer who went with him, unshipped the recording gear from their car and plugged it into the plane’s radio system. Thereafter when the crew spoke among themselves, called up control stations on the ground, or picked up the navigational beacon marks, they were able to capture on discs what was said. On and off the plane Lee and Angell worked with Captain Campbell and the crew, and they built this programme on the recordings made during that time. The result is an intimate, living portrait of a representative of the type whose calling demands exceptional qualities professional and personal; a man who | in the course of one week may have to make himself at home in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Western Europe. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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210Portrait of a Flyer New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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