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- Title
- Reaching for the Skies - An End to Isolation
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Made for the 50th anniversary of Air New Zealand, Reaching for the Skies takes a journey through New Zealand’s aviation history — from claims that Richard Pearse flew before the Wright brothers and early attempts at Trans-Tasman travel, to the establishment of Tasman Empire Airways and the modern airliner. Vintage aircraft feature, with biplanes and single engine aircraft, as well as rare Solent flying boats. Interviewees talk about their desire to form a new private airline after the war, on...
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- Video
- Date created
- 1990
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/reaching-for-the-skies-1990
- Related subjects
- teal / air new zealand / flight / aerospace / plane / aviation / george bolt / jean batten / bert mercer / national airways corporation / dc-8 / dc-3 / richard pearse / vivian walsh / solent / transtasman / concord / flying boat / richard pearce / nz on air / new zealand on air
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