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  1. The Airspeed Record

    Date released
    12 Nov 1945
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1534
    NoS ID
    039777
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Group Captain Wilson and Test Pilot Greenwood shatter world record in standard RAF jet fighter.

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  2. Bea: The Definitive Newsreel History 1946 - 1974 (2011)

    Subject
    Transport
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 152 minutes), £14.99

    BEA (British European Airways), was a division of the state owned BOAC formed in 1946 to run the passenger air services to continental Europe and within the UK that had been operated by the RAF during the...

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  3. 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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  4. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Thorough Training is Backbone of RAF

    Date released
    7 Nov 1940
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    596A
    NoS ID
    011257
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Thorough Training Is Backbone of RAF RAF Training School. DESCRIPTION: Trainee pilots undergo rigorous training with the RAF. SHOTLIST: The pilots to be taught Morse, navigation, engine...

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  5. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Transport Pilots Pool Station

    Date released
    12 Jun 1941
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    627A
    NoS ID
    011730
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ferry Pilots. DESCRIPTION: The Ferry pilots, many of them women, fly aircraft from the manufacturers to the Royal Air Force. SHOTLIST: Colonel Moore Brabazon addresses the pilots who...

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  6. Superflight

    Date released
    16 Oct 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2002
    NoS ID
    027088
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Superflight. DESCRIPTION: An X15 Rocket-Plane, piloted by Major William Knight, sets a new world airspeed record, 99,000 feet over Nevada. SHOTLIST: MS X15 rocket plane beneath a B52...

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