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First International Flight from Wellington, 75 years ago today
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:10:15
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Synopsis
On this day 75 years ago, the first-ever international flight took off from Wellington. The Tasman Empire Airlines Ltd Solent flying boat left for Sydney on October 3rd 1950, in what would have been a very different experience from flying today. To talk about this more, aviation historian Richard Waugh joins Mark Leishman