| Below is a list of tracks for this release. |
| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length |
|---|
| 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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