Flights of Curiosity

It is amazing how much one can tell about a point in time by looking at the advertising and newsreels. This is a brief introduction to one of our new regular series named Flying Back in Time.

This is another story that I came across when carrying out research for the documentary Whirlwinds and Widow-Makers. I was looking at what type of selection process my father would have had to go through to get into the RAF as a pilot.

Whirlwinds and Widow-Makers is the first of many long-form documentaries that we plan to release on Flights of Curiosity.    It is a rather unique insight into the early days of rotary wing aircraft in the Royal Air Force, as it uses footage and photographs taken by one of the pilots who flew during this time, Flight Lieutenant Jim Reilly. Even for those with no interest in helicopters, it is well worth watching as Jim also captured the social, political and cultural changes that took place during the post war years in South East Asia.  

This is a story that I came across when I was in Scotland carrying out research for the feature length documentary WHIRLWINDS and WIDOW-MAKERS.