The Pilots
You are looking for the documentary The Pilots, made in about 1962-63 by Richard Cawston for the BBC. The film had as its main theme the BOAC Boeing 707-436 service to the Far East, and followed it via Frankfurt and Rome as far as Beirut. The captain was Captain Ernest Rodley, who I think was the first British airline pilot to receive a jet rating on his licence, on the Comet 1. He was the first because he raced a fellow newly Comet-rated pilot to the ARB in London and won because he owned the faster car! Captain Rodley was a distinguished Lancaster pilot during the war, and left the RAF as a Wing Commander.
The film was actually an inspiration to a great many of us who went into aviation in the 1960s.
Last edited by D120A; 1st Jun 2006 at 23:04.