IN DEPTH: AVIATION Video vignettes: centennial of flight CBC News | December 10, 2003
Because the shortest distance across the Atlantic is between Newfoundland and Ireland, Newfoundland has always played a crucial historic role in transatlantic communications. Shipping, radio, cable – and aviation. Many pioneers of transatlantic flight took off from The Rock: Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart, who used the landing strip at Harbour Grace, near St. John's.
Atlantic Canada: birthplace of Canadian aviation
But there have been many other developments in Canadian aviation, from many parts of the country. CBC Newsworld celebrates the centennial of flight with a series of one-minute video vignettes. December 17th is the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Special broadcast coverage includes a look at significant developments in Canadian aviation history, such as:
• the key role of Gander, Newfoundland
• the history of bush pilots
• Canada's future in space
Click on the links below to watch RealVideo versions of the one-minute vignettes featured on CBC Newsworld. [Click to get RealPlayer.]
Click on the links below to watch RealVideo versions of the one-minute vignettes featured on CBC Newsworld. [Click to get 
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