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  1. The Rotodyne

    Date released
    11 Nov 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1484
    NoS ID
    022021
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Rotodyne. DESCRIPTION: Two Napier-Eland propeller-turbines. A four-bladed rotor, powered by jets at the tips. Principle features on a specification for success, as the world’s...

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  2. Air News: Straight-Up Airliner

    Date released
    11 Nov 1957
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    57/91
    NoS ID
    107942
    Story no
    3 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    The world’s first helicopter-airliner - the Fairey Rotodyne - makes a successful take-off test in Berkshire.

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  3. Achievement

    Date released
    8 Jan 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1544A
    NoS ID
    022798
    Story no
    6 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rotodyne. DESCRIPTION: The Small World drifted some twelve hundred miles from Tenerife, then ditched in the sea. They cut the balloon adrift and sailed on in the small gondola. It was a...

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  4. The Farnborough Show

    Date released
    4 Sep 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1526A
    NoS ID
    022585
    Story no
    2 / 2

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Farnborough Show. DESCRIPTION: It is Farnborough time again: the Society of British Aircraft Constructors’ nineteenth annual display. Held at the Royal Aircraft Establishment’s...

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  5. Straight Up - Take Off

    Date released
    5 Jun 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1513A
    NoS ID
    022420
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fairey Gyrodyne. DESCRIPTION: The world’s first Vertical Take Off Airliner is the Fairey-Rotodyne. Test Pilot Ronald Gellatly showed how it works: it is two machines in one. First - a...

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  6. Russian ‘Copter

    Date released
    14 Nov 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1484A
    NoS ID
    022029
    Story no
    5 / 6

    A giant helicopter, with its two jet engines, might perhaps be described as Russia’s answer to the Fairey Rotodyne. The Soviet machine claims to have beaten an American helicopter-record, by lifting a...

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  7. Progress in Flight

    Date released
    1960
    Series name
    Montage
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    349555
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: shows some developments in the aircraft industry, including the Hovercraft and the Fairey Rotodyne in flight

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  8. Air News

    Date released
    20 Apr 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1559
    NoS ID
    022976
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Air News. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show The Thing with the Glaring Eyes, or, to give it its real name, the Westland Westminster Heavy-Duty Helicopter. Here, it’s been doing a spot...

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  9. The Farnborough Show

    Date released
    10 Sep 1959
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1579A
    NoS ID
    023214
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Farnborough Show. DESCRIPTION: It is Farnborough time again, the Society of British Aircraft Constructors’ twentieth annual display. As a glance at the static display reveals,...

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