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Flight Fighters of the Fifties - intro to NADGE defence system
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s. NADGE.
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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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Centenary - 1904, Japanese army besiege Port Arthur
Clip taken from original documentary 'Centenary'. Shows the Japanese army attacking Port Arthur in 1904.
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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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Centenary - HMS Dreadnought
Clip taken from original documentary 'Centenary'. Shows HMS Dreadnought, WW1 battleship and the production of ships/war weaponry.
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Centenary - production of WW1 weapons and ammunition
Clip taken from original documentary 'Centenary'. A montage on the production of WW1 weaponry and ammunition.
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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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Barnes Wallis, 1966/1967
Rare footage of scientist, engineer and inventor, Barnes Wallis, working in his office. This is the last known colour footage of Wallis and is taken from a longer film, Centenary, chronicling the social and industrial history of the C20th.
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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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Atomic bomb, Cold War, Warsaw Pact
Clip from comprehensive compilation film of fighter aircraft built in the 1950s.
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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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Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet
Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet, 1950s
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Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet 1
Farnborough Airshow - the Lightening fighter jet, 1950s
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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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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 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)