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Montage of early flight, pioneers and aircraft
Clip from Flight Fighters of the Fifties, a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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1970s air show, fighter jet aerobatics and audience
Clip from Flight Fighters of the Fifties, comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircrafts built in the 1950s. Air show, possibly at Farnborough, with the Lockheed F-104C Starfighter, Phantoms and others performing tricks.
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Harrier Jump Jet at sea and in flying formations. MASDIC in Arizona.
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Harrier Jump Jet at sea and in flying formations. MASDIC, military aircraft storage and disposition centre, Arizona....
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Gloster Javelin, Hawker Sea Hawk, Supermarine Scimitar, Hawker Sea Vixen, Folland Gnat and the Red Arrows in action
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Gloster Javelin, Hawker Sea Hawk, Supermarine Scimitar, Hawker Sea Vixen, Folland Gnat and the Red Arrows are all seen...
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Vought F8 Crusader (1955) and F-102 Delta Dagger (1953) in action
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Vought F8 Crusader on carrierand F-102 Delta Dagger are seen in action. Bombs loaded, pilot in cockpit, in flight.
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"Bird man" Franz Reichelt attempts to fly off the Eiffel Tower, 1912
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Vintage Stampe biplane in flight, 1972
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Vintage WW1 biplane in flight, 1972
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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Blackburn Buccaneer, Fairey Delta 1, Fairey Delta 2, Short SC1 and the Harrier are all seen in action at airshow
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Blackburn Buccaneer, Fairey Delta 1, Fairey Delta 2, Short SC1 and the Harrier are all seen in action (audio sync issue...
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1972, vintage Bristol Biplane takes off
Clip from Wind in the Wires, a 35mm cinema short on the history of aviation, narrated by James Mason.
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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, Nato Boeing A3A AWACS and Tupolve Tu-95 in action
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, Nato Boeing A3A AWACS and Tupolve Tu-95 seen in action. (audio sync issue in part).
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Wind in the Wires
35mm cinema short on the history of aviation/flight narrated by James Mason. This highly successful film was widely distributed across UK cinemas in 1972, and was voted Top Documentary of the Year. Contains very rare footage of Wright...
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MacDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom, (1958)
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom seen in action on runway and in flight (audio sync issue in part).
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US fighter jets; F-100 Super Sabre (1953) and Republic F-105 Thunderchief (1955)
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. F-100 Super Sabre and F105 Thunderchief (the Thud) are seen in action, in flight and attacking. (In part audio sync issue).
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She Flies - A film about the Concorde
This iconic award-winning film documents the supersonic Mach 11 aircraft, the Concorde 001, and its first flight from Blagnac, Toulouse, France in March 1969. The end of the film features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from the UK,...
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Wright Flyer Project: Dreams of Flight
Watch a video of the people involved with the Wright Flyer Project who are attempting to reconstruct the Wright brothers' original airplane to deteremine how it flew. [12:47]