This episode begins with Sir Graham Sutton, Director General of the Meteorological Office, on the impact that the weather has on flying and how the science of aviation meteorology has evolved over time, before Raymond Baxter asks Sir Alan Cobham about the greatest problems that confronted him on his pioneering flights across the world and the establishment of the first aircraft charter company. The episode finishes with Captain O. P. Jones, recounting tales of flying the early scheduled aircraft routes.

This is the third episode of Powered Flight, the British contribution to flying. It was first broadcast by the BBC Overseas Service in 1959 and was introduced by Charles Gibbs-Smith. The recording was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS, was licenced from BBC/Getty Images and was digitised and released thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation and a bequest from E. H. J. Pallet.