Sir Arnold Hall

Series

Series Name

Transatlantic Teleview

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Sir Arnold Hall

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

BFI synopsis: Robert McKenzie interviews Sir Arnold Hall, the director of the Royal Aircraft establishment at Farnborough. They discuss the development and present use of the jet engine in British military and civil aviation. Hall talks about working with Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine and about Sam Cody, an American who made the first aeroplane flight in Britain. Mackenzie questions the success of the jet engine in the light of the Comet disasters - Hall was part of the team investigating the possible reason for the crashes. They go on to discuss: Farnborough as an aviation research laboratory, the ‘test tank’; British production techniques and the future of aviation and supersonic flight.

Keywords

Aviation; Aircraft

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 793/11

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign Office

Presenter

Robert McKenzie

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Film Archive

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