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Routine Flight

This documentary short takes you on a tour of Trans-Canada Airlines’ maintenance shops in Winnipeg before taking off for a trial flight on the British-built Vickers Viscount airplane, the first propeller-turbine airliner.
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  • On the Spot
    On the Spot
    1950 20 films
    The first NFB series made specifically for television, On the Spot consisted of 15-minute documentary reports (which later ran 30 minutes) on different aspects of life in Canada.

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This documentary short takes you on a tour of Trans-Canada Airlines’ maintenance shops in Winnipeg before taking off for a trial flight on the British-built Vickers Viscount airplane, the first propeller-turbine airliner.

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  • director
    Gordon Burwash
    Grant McLean
  • producer
    Gordon Burwash
    Grant McLean
  • executive producer
    Robert Anderson
  • photography
    Grant McLean
  • sound
    John Locke
  • editing
    David Mayerovitch
    Marion Meadows
  • narrator
    Liston McIlhaga
Routine Flight
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