Episode
Horizon: Looking for a Happy Landing
Overview
Within 20 years vertical take-off airliners could be hovering over Hampstead and Dulwich before landing, one a minute, day and night, at a Thames-side V-port. Horizon looks at what could be one of the great environmental debates of the century to have, or not to have, aircraft flying in and out of city centres.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1971-05-31
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Looking for a Happy Landing is Episode 17 in 1971 of Horizon. It aired on 1971-05-31. The runtime is 60 min.
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