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Planes in the News

Date released

17 Feb 1955

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2501

NoS ID

045588

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Chief test pilot Cunningham expresses satisfaction with latest version of Comet III. Texas New vertical take-off plane is shown to press at Forth Worth. Miami "Mentalist" stage performer files seaplane and...

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Scientists Probe Comet Mystery

Date released

25 Jan 1954

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2390

NoS ID

044805

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Bodies and belongings picked up on scene of Comet crash are brought ashore for examination. Farnborough Royal Aircraft Establishment puts a Comet through vibration tests. Hatfield Test Pilot Cunningham takes...

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Test Pilot

Date released

1972

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

703

NoS ID

328944

Story no

1 / 1

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The Farnborough Tragedy

Date released

11 Sep 1952

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2247

NoS ID

043924

Story no

5 / 6

John Derry, ace test pilot, the victim of the tragic air crash at Farnborough. Colleague and friend Neville Duke pays his tribute. Minister of Supply Mr Duncan Sandys visits injured in hospital.

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Airspeed Record

Date released

3 Dec 1945

Series name

World Pictorial News

Issue no

239

NoS ID

156475

Story no

4 / 4

The British-made Meteor. Barrage balloons mark course of the first flight. A view of "what six hundred miles an hour looks like from the pilot’s cockpit". First test runs made by Eric Greenwood, chief...

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Tom Frost

Series name

The Pacemakers

Issue no

12

NoS ID

327148

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: A profile of Tom Frost, chief test pilot at the Bristol Engine Division of Rolls Royce. The film features him testing the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.

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Networking Moving Images (1999 Multimedia, Video)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

CD-ROM

A series of interviews and demonstrations documenting the development of ideas behind a one-year joint pilot project designed to test the delivery of moving images via computer networks to UK universities....

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Flight On A Cushion

Date released

1959

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

21

NoS ID

349645

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Looks at the hovercraft. On-screen participants include Christopher Sydney Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, and Peter Lamb, test pilot for the hovercraft.

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Men of Speed

Date released

1956

Series name

Transatlantic Teleview

Issue no

24

NoS ID

329688

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Christoper Chataway interviews Peter Twiss and Donald Campbell. Campbell talks about his water speed records and why he undertakes such attempts. They discuss the application of the...

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Test Flights: Beyond the Limits (1998 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 3 x 47 min., 2000 sale: US$24.00 (+p&p)

Looks at flight testing and research using aerial footage of research aircraft and interviews with pilots and engineers. 1: Presents the leading edge of NASA flight research, from the X-15 to testing of the...

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