Getting It off the Ground

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1915

Date Released

14 Feb 1966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Getting It Off the Ground. DESCRIPTION: A demonstration flight of the BN2 Islander, built at Bembridge, Isle of Wight by John Britten and Desmond Norman. It’s a ten seater short haul aircraft which will sell overseas for 17 1/2 thousand pounds. It can carry passengers for up to 500 miles for only 3d a mile. SHOTLIST: GV aircraft pushed from hangar. MLS ditto. MS pilot into cockpit. MCU propeller turning. MLS pan aircraft taxiing. GV pan take off. MCU man watching from ground. GV pan aircraft flies low over airfield. MCU man watching. Pan aircraft flies low over airfield. GV pan aircraft landing, mud flies up from airfield and sticks to underneath of aircraft. MLS aircraft taxiing. MS pan aircraft taxies into hangar. BN2 Islander.

Keywords

Aviation

Locations

Isle of Wight; Bembridge

Card file number

90779

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

1334

Story extras:

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