Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the cooperation of the Canadian Department of Transport and the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Director, Richard Gilbert ; producer, Thomas Farley ; executive producer, Peter Jones ; script, Stuart Nutter, William Weintraub ; photography, John Foster, Ray Jones ; sound, Michel Belaieff, André Hourlier ; editing, Martin Defalco ; sound editing, Kenneth Heeley-Ray, Sidney Pearson ; re-recording, George Croll ; music, Malca Gillson.

Recorded 1959.

After fifty years of flight the question no longer is whether men can fly, but how fast and how far. This film examines aviation as we know it today--the turbo-jets, the stratocruisers, and the missiles that outstrip the speed of sound. Part three of Salute to Flight.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).