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MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Plane of the Future. DESCRIPTION: Dr Barnes Wallis (designer of the dam-busting bomb) offers an alternative to vertical take-off for the super-sonic plane of the future. Mr Wallis aims...
The life and work of Sir Barnes Wallis in the field of aviation. The film begins with his early air-ship days and then goes on to cover the R100, the Wellington Bomber and the bouncing bomb. The latter half...
Paul Maurice reports on the fortieth anniversary of the so-called Dambusters raid by the RAF 617 Squadron, on the industrial Ruhr region of Germany during the Second World War. Includes interviews with then...
OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 19 Programme 19 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Weeek, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 27th February 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....
The Dambusters Anniversary Programme, presented by Paul Maurice. The history and background to Operation Chastise, the Dambusters bombing raid on hydroelectric dams in the Ruhr region of Germany on 17 May...
COI synopsis: From airships to supersonic flight - this man’s inventions and life have spanned aviation history. In the London Line studio Michael Smee talks to Barnes Wallis - Designer for Flight from the...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aviation Immortals. DESCRIPTION: At a re-union at Scampton, Lincs, Dam-Buster air-crews meet Mr Barnes Wallis, inventor of the Dam-Busting Bomb. 1967 is the 40th Anniversary of the...
Uses archive footage and interviews with bomber crews to examining the attacks using the bouncing bomb invented by Sir Barnes Wallis on the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. Suggests that details of the bomb fell...
A lone Lancaster bomber touches down on the famous RAF airfield. It’s a landing which turns memories back 24 years for the men on board. For then they were heroes, the men who flew in similar planes to...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Strike Command. DESCRIPTION: Ceremonies at Bentley Priory near London, and Scampton, near Lincoln, mark the end of Fighter and Bomber Commands. Many famous personalities of World War...
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