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  1. Jet Test Flight Betters Record

    Date released
    19 Aug 1946
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    46/66
    NoS ID
    101253
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Donaldson does 626 mph over Worthing - Littlehampton course. During test flight advance on world air speed record Meteor pilot comments on performance.

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  2. Crash Pilot Safe and Sound

    Date released
    8 Oct 1959
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    59/81
    NoS ID
    108849
    Story no
    5 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Johnnie Squier, P1 test pilot, knows why plane crashed.

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  3. Vampire - World’s Fastest

    Date released
    24 Sep 1945
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    45/77
    NoS ID
    100815
    Story no
    1 / 2
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    First pictures of the new British de Havilland jet-propelled aircraft in flight. Putting it through its paces is test pilot Geoffrey de Havilland.

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  4. Tudor II, Britain’s Biggest Aircraft

    Date released
    1 Apr 1946
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    46/26
    NoS ID
    101038
    Story no
    5 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Designer and test pilot seen at Woodford aerodrome, Cheshire where Britain’s newest sixty passenger aircraft takes the air in demonstration flight.

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  5. Pathe Front Page

    Date released
    9 Sep 1946
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    46/72
    NoS ID
    101297
    Story no
    3 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Air safety device. The US Air Force test their version of the new pilot ejector.

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  6. Captured Focke Wulfe [Sic] 190

    Date released
    10 Aug 1942
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    42/64
    NoS ID
    099577
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Germany’s hush-hush plane the FW 190 which was forced down on the south coast is inspected by experts, then with RAF marking goes up in the hands of a test pilot to obtain further data. Air [to?] air shots...

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  7. Prime Minister’s Tour

    Date released
    2 Oct 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/79
    NoS ID
    099046
    Story no
    5 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Mr Churchill visits Coventry and with the Bishop and Mayor of Coventry walks through ruins of the Cathedral. Later an an aircraft factory with Mrs Churchill he meets test pilot Henshaw. Then in the uniform...

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  8. Lithgow’s Air Record

    Date released
    2 Oct 1953
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    53/75
    NoS ID
    105524
    Story no
    6 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Test pilot Mike Lithgow cracks Neville Duke’s air record at Castle Idris, flying a Swift.

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  9. Air Speed Record Trials

    Date released
    3 Sep 1953
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    53/67
    NoS ID
    105475
    Story no
    6 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Test pilot Neville Duke gets set for a crack at the world’s air speed record in a Hawker Hunter

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  10. Baling Out - From Zero Feet

    Date released
    8 Sep 1955
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    55/72
    NoS ID
    106648
    Story no
    2 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Test pilot S/Ldr J S Firfield braves the first "live" ejection seat trial during take-off, from a Meteor jet fighter.

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