Aircraft at Work
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Documentary (1966)
Production:
Malcom Otton (Productor)
Daniel Crombie (Director)
Bruce Hillyard (Photographer)
Barry Bowden (Sound Engineer)
Documentaty on air transport in Australia.
Also from this series:
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
Boeing 727-76
Registration VH-TJA, c/n 18741. Delivered new to TAA on October 1964 with earlier livery The Nations Jetline. Sold to International Air Leases on October 1976, then entered service with Air Florida on December of the same year, and registered N40AF in 1977. Finally sold to Continental Airlines in July 1977 in where she serves until 1991, stored at Mojave and scrapped in 1993.
Vickers 756D Viscount
Unidentified registration for this Viscount in The Nations Jetline TAA's livery. In the background the 727-76 listed above is launched for taking off.
Lawrence Hargrave Box-Kite glider
Hargrave's inventions box kite (1893), was applied to gliders, and in October 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont used the box-kite principle in his aeroplane to make his first flight. Until 1909 the box-kite aeroplane was the usual type in Europe.
Santos Dumont 14-bis (model)
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Bristol Boxkite
The 1st aircraft of the company, based on the Farman HF.3.
Keystone LB-7
It seems powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet rather than the Wright Cyclone, therefore listed as LB-7
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