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Routine Flight

Name: Routine Flight
Released: June 23 2010, 11:14
Duration: 29 min

Gordon Burwash & Grant McLean

1955 | 29 min

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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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Credits

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

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The aircraft was originally registered as CF-TGI in 1954 for TCA. It was sold several times, including to the Canadian airline "Trans Air". There is still poster from that airline on the door inside of the aircraft.
ronsig, 20 Jan 2013
This excellent documentary shows the first Vickers Viscount flown in North America and TCA had it. The actual aircraft is now in Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. You can see it there!!
ronsig, 16 Sep 2012