The Last Flight
- by Rod Serling, directed by William F. Claxton
- TV Episode
- Fantasy, War
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Last Flight” by Rod Serling, directed by William F. Claxton (CBS-TV, USA, 5 February 1960).
World War I pilot Terry Decker flies through a white cloud and emerges 42 years later, landing at an American Air Force Base in France, at which point he proves that a Nieuport 28 biplane is capable of doing a causal loop just as well as he can do an Immelmann Turn.
—Michael Main
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: starting and ending time for Lt. Decker
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: time of the story
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Causal Loops: Decker goes back in time to save Leadbottom only because he is told in 1959 that Leadbottom is still alive.
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- “The Last Flight” by Rod Serling, directed by William F. Claxton (CBS-TV, USA, 5 February 1960).