<P> The music video was directed by Storm Thorgerson , a longtime collaborator of Pink Floyd who had designed many of their album covers , and filmed on West Wind Ridge , a mountain in Kananaskis Country near Canmore , located some 50 to 75 km west of the city of Calgary , Alberta during rehearsals for the band 's A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour . The video combined performances of the band with a Native American , played by Canadian actor Lawrence Bayne , working in a field who then runs and jumps off a cliff to turn into a red - tailed hawk . The footage of the stage show shows the band performing `` Learning to Fly '' but features the more colourful light - show used for live performances of `` One of These Days '' . The original video also depicts a factory worker who turns into an aeroplane pilot as well as a child who breaks free from his mother and dives off a cliff into a deep river , swimming away . The video went to # 9 on MTV 's Video Countdown in November 1987 and was the # 60 video of MTV 's Top 100 Videos of 1987 . The video won the band its only MTV Video Music Award for `` Best Concept Video '' in 1988 . The red / orange airplane is a Beech Model 17 Staggerwing . </P>
<P> The music video was directed by Storm Thorgerson , a longtime collaborator of Pink Floyd who had designed many of their album covers , and filmed on West Wind Ridge , a mountain in Kananaskis Country near Canmore , located some 50 to 75 km west of the city of Calgary , Alberta during rehearsals for the band 's A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour . The video combined performances of the band with a Native American , played by Canadian actor Lawrence Bayne , working in a field who then runs and jumps off a cliff to turn into a red - tailed hawk . The footage of the stage show shows the band performing `` Learning to Fly '' but features the more colourful light - show used for live performances of `` One of These Days '' . The original video also depicts a factory worker who turns into an aeroplane pilot as well as a child who breaks free from his mother and dives off a cliff into a deep river , swimming away . The video went to # 9 on MTV 's Video Countdown in November 1987 and was the # 60 video of MTV 's Top 100 Videos of 1987 . The video won the band its only MTV Video Music Award for `` Best Concept Video '' in 1988 . The red / orange airplane is a Beech Model 17 Staggerwing . </P>
where was pink floyd learning to fly filmed
where was pink floyd learning to fly filmed
on West Wind Ridge , a mountain in Kananaskis Country near Canmore , located some 50 to 75 km west of the city of Calgary , Alberta
on West Wind Ridge , a mountain in Kananaskis Country near Canmore , located some 50 to 75 km west of the city of Calgary , Alberta