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Belfast
1964
Production 18/12/1964
02min 45sec
sound
16mm
black and white
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Shorts and Harland & Wolff have been awarded the Sean DeSalis trophy for advancement in aviation. Maurice Smyth meets Lord Headfort of Headfort Aviation who has flown up from Meath in his amphibian aircraft and asks him about the trophy and why it has been awarded to the two Belfast industries.
Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort (20 January 1932 – 21 October 2005) was an Irish peer, aircraft salesman, and politician. His ancestral home in Ireland was in Kells and from there, he founded Headfort Aviation.
An Ulster Television Production.
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