Name: Powered flight
Brand: BBC Radio Enterprises
SKU: REB40
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Powered flight (R. A. Symes-Shutzmann / Various)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			REB 40
Title			Powered flight
Artist(s)			R. A. Symes-Shutzmann / Various
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			A
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			1969
Distributed / printed by			Garrod & Lofthouse International Limited
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Documentaries View all other tracks listed as Documentaries.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			RE 40 - 1 BBC 1 R RE 40 - 2 1 G
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Number have			1
What type of seller was used?			Not recorded
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Side & track	Track and Artist									Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	How it all began. An early history of flying by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, Aeronautical Historian [Charles H. Gibbs-Smith]
A2	Lord Brabazon of Tara, holder of No. 1 certificate granted by the Royal Aero Club for pilots, reminisces, followed by the sound of a Bleriot monoplane (1909) as it starts up, runs and stops. Lord Brabazon tells how he won the Daily Mail prize of 1,000 in 1909 [Lord Brabazon of Tara]
A3	Sir Thomas Sopwith talks about his early aircraft building experiences [Sir Thomas Sopwith]
A4	Sopwith Pup (1916) starts, warms up, revs and switches off
A5	Sir Geoffrey de Havilland recalls early days at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough [Sir Geoffrey de Havilland]
A6	The Farnborough-built E. E. 5a (1917) starts up, revs, ticks over, takes off, circles overhead and dives
A7	Sir Geoffrey de Havilland talks about the birth of the aircraft industry and the first civil airliner [Sir Geoffrey de Havilland]
A8	Bristol Fighter (1916) with a single Rolls-Royce engine starts up, taxies, takes off, passes overhead and flies into the distance
A9	Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown describes the first ever direct flight across the North Atlantic, which he made in 1919 with Sir John Alcock [Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown]
A10	Sir Alan Cobham tells Raymond Baxter how he pioneered the establishment of international air routes [Sir Alan Cobham / Raymond Baxter]
A11	Gipsy Moth (about 1930) starts, revs and taxies away
B1	Mr L. Nightingale, a fitter at Croydon Airport, recalls the aircraft used in the early days and temembers the arrival of Lindbergh and Amy Johnson [Mr L. Nightingale]
B2	Captain O. P. Jones, retired Senior Captain of B. O. A. C., remembers early scheduled flights [Captain O. P. Jones]
B3	A portrait of the Tiger Moth, the aircraft used more than any other for training pilots, starts, ticks over, taxies away, takes off and flies slowly past
B4	Air Marshall Sir Richard Atcherley tells of the development of the Schneider Trophy seaplanes which were the forerunners of the Spitfire. He mentions his own part in the Schneider Trophy race of 1929 [Air Marshall Sir Richard Atcherley]
B5	Spitfire starts, taxies, takes off and passes overhead
B6	Jet engine on test bed introducing Hayne Constant, one of the team that developed the early gas turbine engines, who talks about the birth of the jet
B7	Comet IV taking off, followed by Group Captain John Cunningham, then Chief Test pilot and a director of the de Havilland Aircraft Company, telling the story of the culmination of the British contribution to Powered Flight - the first passenger-carrying jet airliner in the world - the Comet [Group Captain John Cunningham]
Total length of media 0:00.

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BBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd. The items shown here are from the "main" BBC Records and Tapes library covering a wide secletion of genres from themes, comedy dramas and others, depending on which format you have selected.