THE AGE OF FLIGHT
|?’s not much more than 490 years since flying began in New Zealand, but progress has been fast-it had to be to bring us in that time from planes in which you felt your way along at 60 miles an hour to the Vampire and Comet. How did it all come about? Highlights of the story are told in The Age of Flight, an hour-long programme by David Kohn which 2YA will broadcast at 7.57 p.m. on Friday, March 27, and again at 9.30 a.m. the following Sunday. Listeners will hear in this programme the voices of many of the men who know the story of New Zealand aviation best-the men who were on the spot when things: were happening. They will talk about the beginnings of flying (remember the Walsh Brothers?), the growth of aero clubs from 1929 on, the flights of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, the beginnings of the R.N.Z.A.F; and its work during the recent war, the development of civil aviation, air traffic control and the coming big air race. There will be a word, too, about the Comet, and _ finally a glance toward the future.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 6
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193THE AGE OF FLIGHT New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 6
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