This episode of Grounded looks at the Miami based Chalk's Ocean Airways who were, at the time of their 2007 demise the oldest airline in the world and oldest continually operating airline in the United States. While there has been some doubt over how they claimed their "oldest" title, there was no doubt that Chalk's was an aviation icon, operating seaplanes from Biscayne Bay on the shores of Miami to the Bahamas for well over 85 years this airline not only outlasted dozens of Presidents, it had golden age cinema icons & other celebrities as frequent fliers and even found itself immortalised in Miami Vice and various films and TV programmes...
Chalk's operated under several names since it was founded in 1917, Red Arrow Flying Service, Chalk's Flying Service, Chalk's International Airlines, Chalk's Ocean Airways before reverting back to Chalk's International Airlines.
*PRODUCTION NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE**
* This episode took twice as long as expected to produce due to numerous issues, I finished the script on Friday and recorded the audio immediately afterward. Having pencilled it in for a Sunday release instead of Saturday it still took until 11pm on Sunday night to complete the episode, though issues with YT meant that the video didn't publish until 2 minutes to midnight!
* While I have not rushed this episode I did have to cut various bits from the script for timekeeping purposes, otherwise this episode would have been 30+ minutes long.
I really hope you enjoyed this episode, I wanted to do something slightly different and I would say Chalk's were certainly an aviation icon in need of their story being told.
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