Fog Won't Stop Future Flying 1958

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Full title reads: "Bedford. Fog Won't Stop Future Flying".

Aerial shot looking down on crowded London Airport. LV Transatlantic airliners on apron. LV Pan, passengers boarding Viscount plane.

LV Canberra jet on runway at Bedford aerodrome. SV "Blind Landing Experimental Unit" on side...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50137
Sort Number:
58/083
Time in/Out:
01:49:33:00 / 01:51:10:00
Canister:
58/83
Film ID:
1561.32
Issue Date:
16/10/1958

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