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Footage of the Supermarine 525. Includes a world speed record attempt by Mike Lithgow, 1953
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine black and white film, First of the New, chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design. Shows designers at Supermarine headquarters under the management of Joe Swift and R J Mitchell, clips of the...
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Flight Fighters of the Fifties - Lockheed Starfighter
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Lockheed Starfighter. (audio sync issue)
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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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1951, Farnborough Air Show. Supermarine models 508, 510, 535. 1953 London to Brussels record.
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine B&W film chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design from the Supermarine in 1925, through the Supermarine 4 monoplane, the S5, S6, S6B, Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful, Attacker, 508, 510, 535, to...
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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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Atomic Age, Cold War, Warsaw Pact, birth of NATO, missile and airborne defence
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The Cold War. (in part, audio sync issue)
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A Line Is Drawn. Part One.
Documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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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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A Line Is Drawn. Part Five. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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Vickers shipbuilding
Clip from Centenary, an award-winning documentary (BISFA Gold Award 1967 best UK documentary) made by Peter Baylis & John Edwards, a duo who won BISFA Gold for a record-breaking three years running. 'Centenary' was sponsored by Vickers &...
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Vickers Supermarine design HQ. Manufacturing. Test flights.
Clip from a Vickers Supermarine B&W film chronicling the development of Vickers aircraft design from the Supermarine in 1925, through the Supermarine 4 monoplane, the S5, S6, S6B, Spitfire, Seafire, Spiteful, Attacker, 508, 510, 535, to...
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Concorde 002, maiden UK flight, 1969 -1
Clip from the award-winning documentary on the Concorde's first flights from France and the UK in 1969. This is the only colour footage of Concorde's first flights. This subclip features the first flight of the Concorde 002 from Filton,...
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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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Vickers Aviation
A film about 50 years of achievement on road and in the air by Vickers Aviation, beginning at Brooklands in 1907. The film shows vintage racing cars, and the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1907, then follows the invention of early flying...
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Test flight of the record-breaking Supermarine Swift in the North African desert, 1953
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Record breaking Supermarine fighter, The Swift.
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Two. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
A Line Is Drawn. Part Two. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Four. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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A Line Is Drawn. Part Three. From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
From a documentary about the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment system (NADGE)
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The English Electric Lightning supersonic fighter jet, 1954 -1
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The English Electric Lightning in action with scramble. (in part, audio sync issue)
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The Hawker Hunter jet; rare footage of the Black Arrows in the 1970s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. The Hawker Hunter. (in part, audio sync issue). Very rare footage of the 22-jet aerobatic team, the Black Arrows, who...
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The French Dassault Mirage supersonic fighter jet, 1955
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Dassault Mirage jets on runway. (audio sync issue)
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Supersonic jets at Farnborough Airshow, 1950s
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Farnborough Airshow 1956. Jets take off (audio sync issue)