Great Big Story
Rebuilding a legend, the Spitfire restoration journey
Discover Martin Phillips' 14-year quest to rebuild a Spitfire, a symbol of freedom and heritage.
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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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Spitfires and biplanes
Pilots flying Spitfires in South Africa and biplanes in Brooklands, England
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The Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf 109
Montage of mute rushes for a film about the WW2 competition between Spitfire & Messerschmitt Bf 109
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Spitfires bombs targets in France prior to D-Day, followed by gliders that crash-land, June 6th 1944
Spitfires bombs targets in France prior to D-Day, followed by gliders that crash-land, June 6th 1944
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+4:3 Spitfire hunter says he will continue search despite loss of sponsors
Yangon, Myanmar - 19 February 2013
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cutaway photographer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cundall, British aviation enthusiast:
"They (Wargamings) are not Spitfire enthusiasts at all. We've never dug for...
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UK: LEGENDARY WWII SPITFIRE FIGHTER PLANES AT DUXFORD AIR SHOW
English/Nat
Spitfires from all over Europe gathered to display their aerial agility at a British airfield in the largest meeting of the legendary fighter planes since the Second World war.
Thousands of enthusiasts turned out at Duxford...
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Farnborough Air show, 1956
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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Aircraft designers in the 1950s. Montage of fighter jets.
Clip from "Flight Fighters of the Fifties", a comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. Propellers to jets (in part, audio sync issue)
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Workers of Britain, city life, military life, soldiers, women and men in arms factories, pilots, bouncing bomb, fighter aircraft
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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Man in the Sky
35mm Panavision colour cinema short, produced by Buff Films 1981/1982. Writer/Director/Producer John Edwards. Man in the Sky is a biopic about David Perrin, young world-class aerobatic stunt pilot, following him in training and aerobatic...
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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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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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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)
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March 5th 1936, first Spitfire flight. Spitfires in military service, WW2 combat. Spitfire factory production.
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...