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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1544A

Date Released

8 Jan 1959

Date submitted

8 Jan 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Revolt in Cuba
2. 2Helicopters to the Rescue
3. 3A Future Miler?
4. 4Up the Pole
5. 5Schoolboys’ Reply to Russia
6. 6Achievement

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rotodyne. DESCRIPTION: The Small World drifted some twelve hundred miles from Tenerife, then ditched in the sea. They cut the balloon adrift and sailed on in the small gondola. It was a fine achievement by these four British adventurers to reach Barbados safely. The Fairey Rotodyne vertical take-off and landing airliner has set a world record of 190.9 miles an hour over a closed circuit course. Finally, this is Britain’s English Electric Lightning fighter, originally known as the P1. It can fly at twice the speed of sound, between 12 and 14 hundred miles an hour. SHOTLIST: MS Rotodyne with rotor turning. Elevated shot same. MS wing flaps turning. MS Rotodyne takes off. MS pan - Rotodyne in flight. Elevated shot pan Rotodyne flies over. Same. LS to MS Rotodyne in flight.

Keywords

Aviation; Military

Locations

England; Berkshire; White Waltham

Card file number

75986

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

105

Story extras:

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