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2 unusual facts about Reach for the Sky


Avro Tutor

After suffering engine failure in the early stages of the filming of Reach for the Sky, it was purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection and restored to flying condition.

Social Distortion discography

The album's lead single, "Reach for the Sky", became another one of Social Distortion's biggest hits in the fall of 2004.


Daniel M. Angel

responsible for several notable British films during the 1950s, such as Another Man's Poison (1952), The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Carve Her Name with Pride (1958).

Sydney Tafler

He most commonly played spiv characters, one notable exception being the 1956 film Reach for the Sky in which he played the prosthetics expert to Douglas Bader.


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