Air News - Captain Scott 500th Flight 1955

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London Airport.

GV. B.O.A.C. Monarch taxiing in. SV. Captain Stuart Scott of Shaftesbury, Dorset, walking down steps from cabin to aircraft. CU. Captain Scott, first British pilot who have flown the Atlantic 500 times.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
30775
Sort Number:
55/041
Time in/Out:
01:17:14:00 / 01:17:36:00
Canister:
55/41
Film ID:
525.08
Issue Date:
23/05/1955

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