Vintage Pilot (1953)

Vintage aircraft at Denham, Buckinghamshire and London Airport. M/S airline pilot leaving house and saying goodbye to wife. He goes out of garden gate, he waves as he walks past camera. Various shots pilot walking along country road. M/S mechanic working on vintage biplane, pilot walks in. The pilot throws cap and gloves into locker and dons flying helmet. M/S mechanic checking engine. M/S pilot climbs aboard biplane and signals to start. M/S mechanic swings propellor. C/U propeller revolving. C/U pilot gives signal to move chocks (blocks under wheels). Various shots plane taking off. Panning shot as plane flies past. C/U back view of pilot. Various aerial shots from cockpit, we see aerodrome below. C/U another pilot watching plane land. M/S from plane as it taxis down runway. M/S plane taxiing, Elizabethan (modern aeroplane) in foreground. M/S pilot and colleague entering Elizabethan. C/U pilots take up positions in cockpit and check instruments. C/U pilot. C/U complicated dashb