Henry Hauck film maker

Vintage free-filght films restored

Henry Hauck recalls the early days of flying cinematography

19 January, 2026, by Tarquin Cooper

Today’s filmmakers don’t realise how fortunate they are. Stick a GoPro on a helmet, an Insta360 on a pole – you don’t even need to press a button to start recording. And the footage is there waiting for you at the end of the flight, complete with audio, ready to be cut and shared.

It wasn’t quite like that for the legendary filmmaker and pilot Henry Hauck, who has digitally restored and released online his archive of early free-flight films from the mid-’80s and ‘90s. The five films include the...

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