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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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Halley the Beautiful (198 Multimedia)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, 20 slides. col.

Halley’s comet returned to the inner parts of the solar system during late 1985 and early 1986. Giotto and four other spacecraft took pictures of the orbit; there are also pictures from earth-based...

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Comet’s Triumphant Return

Date released

2 Jan 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2592

NoS ID

046289

Story no

6 / 6

Comet III completes 30,000 mile round-world proving flight. Hatfield Fifty-four pressmen take ninety minute flight in Comet over Southern England.

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World Salutes Comet

Date released

26 Dec 1955

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2590

NoS ID

046275

Story no

1 / 8

Pictures show Comet III landing at Toronto Airport and leaving on its flight home.

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The Comet’s Test Flight (78 Feet)

Date released

25 Jan 1954

Series name

Universal Irish News

Issue no

209

NoS ID

135041

Story no

2 / 7

Testing a comet (37 feet).

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Go by Comet: London - South Africa Under Twenty-Four Hours

Date released

21 Apr 1952

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2206

NoS ID

043643

Story no

8 / 8

Vivid pictures illustrate route to be followed by Comet Air Service between London and Johannesburg.

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Comet: How Farnborough Discovered Crash Causes!

Date released

25 Oct 1954

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2468

NoS ID

045339

Story no

5 / 6

Test to destruction proves that metal fatigue was cause of Comet crash.

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Comet III Makes First Flight

Date released

22 Jul 1954

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2441

NoS ID

045127

Story no

8 / 8

After successful taxi-ing runs, De Havilland’s chief test pilot, John Cunningham, takes up new Comet.

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Comet across the sky

Date released

1951

Series name

Oil Review

Issue no

2

NoS ID

349545

Story no

3 / 3

Film User Summary - the developent of the world’s first jet airliner, the D. H. "Comet" BP synopsis: How the first all-jet air lines got off to a 500 m.p.h. start. September 1946 the design and...

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The Queen’s First Flight By Comet

Date released

10 Jun 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2807

NoS ID

157346

Story no

1 / 7

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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