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1930 TRANSPORT / QUIRKY: Aviation: Learning to fly by wireless
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0:50Now PlayingDate: 20th January 1930
Location: Unknown location
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Learning to Fly by Wireless. With the aid of instructions by radio from the ground to machine in flight Miss Peggy O'Neil becomes an efficient pilot.
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Various of Peggy O'Neil chatting to male pilot (not heard)
O'Neil getting in cockpit of byplane
Various of byplane taking off and in flight as controlled wirelessly by radio from ground
Plane landing
Peggy O'Neil posing on plane
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