The Future Of The Comet

Series

Series Name: Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

54/8

Date Released

25 Jan 1954

Length of issue (in feet)

680

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

A comprehensive Pathe News report on the headline story - the Comet. A reconstruction of the events which led to the recent crash off Melba; Italians lay wreaths where the Comet dived into the sea; exhaustive tests are carried out in Britain to locate any possible faults in the machines; test-pilot John Cunningham takes off in a Comet II from Hatfield in an attempt on the London-Khartoum record

Keywords

Aviation; Accidents and disasters

Footage sources

Incom
Library

Credits:

Camera: John Corbett
Camera: Norman William Roper
Camera: Robert Kenneth Leslie Gordon
Camera: William Jordan

Length of story (in feet)

355

Story extras:

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