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  1. 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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  2. Low Cycle Fatigue (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Everitt
    Producer
    John Holloway
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Highlights the important aspect of monitoring the fatigue of an aircraft engine during its normal working life. There are two distinct halves: the first illustrates, at elementary level, engine operation in...

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  3. Foretelling Fatigue Life (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows a computer system for calculating the fatigue-free life of engineering components predicting the life of a connecting rod. Recorded on location at GKN and MIRA. Uses computer animation to explain the...

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  4. Plane Scanner

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    252
    NoS ID
    352400
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Because just one malfunction in a plane can have such disastrous effects, safety checks on planes verge on the obsessive; not just for the moving parts, but every rivet on the wings - and there...

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  5. Testing Aero Tyres

    Date released
    22 Sep 1958
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    195
    NoS ID
    120617
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: In flying, the accident hazards which spring to mind are collision, fire, engine failure and, more rarely, metal fatigue. A part not usually associated with disaster is tyres; to see why this...

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  6. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    329456
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting til it collapses demonstrates one of the more spectacularly catastrophic results of stress in metals... but more frequently the effects of stress...

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  7. Sounds of Doom

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    78
    NoS ID
    325404
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: A suspension bridge buckling and twisting till it collapses demonstrates one of the more spectacularly catastrophic results of stress in metals... but more frequently the effects of stress...

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  8. Early Warning Alarms: Bleeding Bolts

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    236
    NoS ID
    325981
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Prevention is better than cure... a simple early warning system can mean that trouble - or even disaster - can be averted. Throughout industry metal fatigue can cause sudden, unexpected failure...

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  9. Safe Air Transport: Bleeding Bolts

    Date released
    1983
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    305
    NoS ID
    352443
    Story no
    4 / 6

    COI synopsis: This programme looks at the work of the unsung heroes, who, through their skill, have already made flying the most popular form of transport around the world - a tribute to their achievement in...

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  10. Group Research Station - more detectives in industry

    Date released
    Nov 1954
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    21
    NoS ID
    349453
    Story no
    4 / 6

    NFA synopsis: Two men in a pub discuss metal fatigue in motor racing cars. Stirling Moss is brought into the conversation and goes around the R.T.S.C.W. testing labs, which had been an experimental weapons...

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