The Comet Test
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 8
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Comet Test. DESCRIPTION: The most intensive probes into the Comet disasters have been carried out at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. One of them involved the ‘testing to destruction’ of a Comet, in a special water tank. SHOTLIST: GV Comet surrounded by test equipment. MS nose of Comet. MCU wheel as it is being pushed along. MS wing. GV Comet testers and equipment. TS water tank. CU wing. MCU water into tank. Sequence: hydraulics lowering Comet into tank. TS Comet in tank. MS two men looking at cracks in fuselage. CU cracks (x3). TS Comet in tank.
- Keywords
- Aviation
- Locations
- Farnborough; Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Footage sources
- Ministry of Supply
- Card file number
- 62095
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 63
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