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TROUT: (AD LIB) Thank you Captain Hawkes...In salute to the round the world trails you have blazed, the orchestra plays....

ORCHESTRA: SEIECTION [[sic]]....SHORT - BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON

TROUT: From the early days when the century was young, aviation soared ahead, pulled through stage after stage of progress by the throb of powerful motors. After the brief, startling flights of the pioneers, the air knew the hum of engines, the vibration of wings, of planes which sped bullets and bombs across the boundaries of Europe. The World War hastened aviation's development, made the aeroplane a familiar, if often a dread, sight to those who walk on the streets below.

But as the echo of the last cannon died away, the aeroplane did not die. America came to know and appreciate the daring fliers who toured the country in a spirit of carnival of laughing recklesness[[sic]]. The age of the stunt man, a short, dazzling age, ended as abruptly as the War. Today, aviation is a routine business, run on schedule and governed by rigid rules of the road. 

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