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Flight to the Sun

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Flight to the Sun screen title.

Documentary (1956)

Production:
Harry Rabinowitz (Music)
Ken Jones (Featuring)
Leonard Sachs (Narrator)
Peter Russell (Sound Editor)
Maurice Askew (Sound Recordist)
Harold Weaver (Editor and Director)

Also from this series:
SATOUR films series

This film "Flight to the Sun" is presented by the South African tourism organization known as Satour. This historical film was produced during the apartheid period in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly support racism and racial separation. It is presented for historical purposes only, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.

Douglas DC-7B

Boarding at London Heathrow Airport (LHR).See discussion tab (1).
South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens operated 4 airplanes of the type: ZS-DKD/E/F/G.

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Douglas DC-7B

In flight on route to Rome.

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

On approach to Aeroporto Ciampino (CIA).See discussion tab (2).

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Douglas DC-7B

Flight above Africa.See discussion tab (3).

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Descent flight towards Johannesburg.

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Douglas DC-7B

On approach to Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB).

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Landing at Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB).See discussion tab (4).

Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Douglas DC-7B of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Lockheed L-749A Constellation

In the background at Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB).
One of the 4 airplanes of the type operated by the company: ZS-DBR/S/T/U.

Lockheed L-749A Constellation of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.

Complete shutdown of all 4 Wright R-3350 Duplex Cyclone of the DC-7B.

Lockheed L-749A Constellation of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.


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