In the Beginning a Wilderness of Air

This film reviews some of man's earliest attempts at powered flight, including the first successful flight of the Silver Dart by J.A.D. McCurdy. The first aerial combat of World War I; the first trans-Canada flight; the first trans-Atlantic crossing by Britain's giant dirigible, the R.100; the beginning of commercial aviation--all are recaptured in this fast-moving account of the time when the skies held man's greatest challenge. Part one of the Salute to Flight Series series.