Flying Fortress (Non-cleared Wartime Broadcast)
A non-cleared trial recording of Ceiling Unlimited devoted to the Flying Fortress. It opens with the true story of a badly damaged American bomber that survives repeated fighter attacks and…
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A non-cleared trial recording of Ceiling Unlimited devoted to the Flying Fortress. It opens with the true story of a badly damaged American bomber that survives repeated fighter attacks and…
A Ceiling Unlimited wartime feature devoted to the Flying Fortress. Welles combines the account of an American bomber surviving devastating combat damage with a dramatized tour in which Leonardo da…
A wartime Ceiling Unlimited feature uses three elderly veterans debating a radio report to explain the growing importance of military air transport. Their argument moves from Civil War memories and…
A Ceiling Unlimited wartime feature follows ordinary American Carl Jones from civilian life into training as an aerial navigator. While the women at home take on their own war work,…
A dramatized aviation feature based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars, centered on Henri Guillaumet's survival after crashing in the Andes. Guillaumet describes walking for days through snow,…
A Ceiling Unlimited wartime factory feature takes listeners through aircraft production by talking with the men and women doing the work. Welles moves among workers from different backgrounds as they…
Military officers struggle to explain reports of gremlins sabotaging Allied aircraft until pilot Lieutenant Messler describes being tormented by a hammer-wielding gremlin named Clarence. Messler's Irish sweetheart suggests the creatures…
A Ceiling Unlimited documentary-drama about long-distance aviation and Pan American's role in building a global air-transport network. The broadcast uses wartime voyages and crew recollections to discuss navigation, the international…
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