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- Title
- Making New Zealand - Aviation
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
This episode of Making New Zealand reminisces on early aviation highs and lows, as New Zealand's air industry evolved. In 1911, brothers Vivian and Leo Walsh made the country's first powered flight. Since then, it's been difficult to keep Kiwis out of the sky. The episode also includes footage of famous flights, including record-breaker Jean Batten returning from her solo flight from the United Kingdom — the first person to achieve this feat. Interviews with airline bosses, pilots, air hostes...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2018
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/making-nz-aviation-2018
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