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Progress in Flight

Date released

1960

Series name

Montage

Issue no

1

NoS ID

349555

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: shows some developments in the aircraft industry, including the Hovercraft and the Fairey Rotodyne in flight

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High Speed Flight (Simplified Version) (1960)

Subject

Physics; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A compilation made from the three films in the HIGH SPEED FLIGHT series, illustrating the behaviour of airflow at speeds approaching, around, and beyond that of sound: the effects of airflow behaviour on...

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Voices of History 2: Art, Science and Exploration (2012 Audio)

A 2-CD set features historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, drama, the sciences, sport and exploration. Shakespeare-related items include Ellen Terry as Ophelia and Sir Henry Irving as Richard...

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Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race

Date

12 Dec 2011, 11:02

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

By Michael Allen (IB Tauris, 2009). 240 pages. ISBN: 978-1845111700 (Paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1845111694 (Hardback), £56 About the author: Dr Kate O’Riordan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of...

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Theme Park Heaven (1992 Video)

Director

Graham Moore

Producer

Frankie Glass

Subject

Design; Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

Theme parks and ride designers are engaged in a technological battle to fulfil our dreams and create the cutting edge of this competitive industry from roller coasters to flight simulators, and the...

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Instruments in Flight (1986 Video)

Producer

John Stratford

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Looks at the flight instrumentation on the BA 146. Shows how the sensors fitted to engine no 3 are used to alert the crew to an engine fire and how those sensors are able to present the pilot with a...

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Triumph of Flight (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 59 min.

Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows ‘Concorde’ on its inaugural flight from London to New York, the Red Arrows, the Graf Zeppelin. Also show the Vickers ‘Viscount’, de Havilland...

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File Hierarchies and Reorganisation (1987 Video)

Producer

David Saunders

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Looks at the way in which British Airways use computers for seat reservations. Animations show how files are structured with a hierarchy of indexes to allow fast access to static information about flights....

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In-Flight Movie (1987 Video)

Producer

John Downer

Subject

Biology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Looks at how and why birds fly. Using remarkable new film techniques the audience is given a ‘bird’s eye’ view of the world. Shows a goose’s perpective of flying among clouds and what a fast-flying...

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Eagle Has Landed, The: The Flight of Apollo 11 (1969 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1995 sale £11 (+VAT +p&p)

The historic first landing of men on the Moon and their safe return to Earth. It documents the Apollo 11 mission from the launching of the Saturn V-Apollo vehicle on 16 July 1969, through the lunar landing...

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