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  1. Stapp Stopped! From 633 MPH to Rest in One and Half Seconds!

    Date released
    6 Jan 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2489
    NoS ID
    045499
    Story no
    7 / 8
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Colonel Stapp apparently none the worse after astounding experiment.

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  2. Searching the Skies

    Date released
    28 Sep 1931
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    127
    NoS ID
    138191
    Story no
    8 / 8
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet

    Demonstration of utility of searchlight.

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  3. Rocket-Sled Hurls Man 421 MPH

    Date released
    14 Jun 1954
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2430
    NoS ID
    045044
    Story no
    2 / 3

    American Colonel is "guinea-pig" in amazing experiment seeking safety for pilots baling out of ultra-fast planes.

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  4. News in a Flash: Hair Drills

    Date released
    11 Oct 1954
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    2529
    NoS ID
    154281
    Story no
    7 / 10
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet

    Super precision drill.

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  5. Cold War, Hot Jets (2013)

    Director
    Simon Winchcombe
    Producer
    Simon Winchcombe
    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £34.99

    Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but one technological innovation provided hope for the future: a world-leading jet aviation industry. During the Cold War, the jet engine became...

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  6. Television from Sea Bed Aids Wreck Searching

    Date released
    16 Jun 1952
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2222
    NoS ID
    043746
    Story no
    1 / 9

    Naval salvage ship gives demonstration of television camera being used at sixty fathoms.

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  7. Science Pierces Sound Barrier: Supersonic Rocket (First Pictures)

    Date released
    18 Apr 1949
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1892
    NoS ID
    041649
    Story no
    2 / 7

    RAF releases film hitherto secret of rocket which flew at nearly 1,000 mph.

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  8. News Flashes - Stop Press

    Date released
    27 Jan 1943
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1243
    NoS ID
    038544
    Story no
    3 / 7

    Flexible glass, practically bullet proof, used for bomb-turrets.

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  9. Fido Secret

    Date released
    4 Jun 1945
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/75; Paramount Issue No.: 1488
    NoS ID
    156783
    Story no
    3 / 4

    A method of evaporating fog, chosen by the Petroleum Warfare Department. Fuel is ignited on the runways of airfields, making them visible to planes in fog, and enabling them to land safely.

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  10. African Pilots Make War on Tsetse Fly

    Date released
    10 Feb 1949
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1873
    NoS ID
    041521
    Story no
    3 / 7

    Men of African Airforce fly at tree-top height, spraying DDT to kill deadly insects.

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