Title: ‘Deck rigged for landing. Ropes and directing flags in position’. Pan over wooden-panelled deck with round area marked in white paint and bounded on either side by small wooden posts with r...
I. The steam catapult trials carried out at the Armstrong Whitworth plant, Elswick, and later at the Experimental Aircraft Depot, Isle of Grain. A steam catapult fitted to HMS Slinger is used first to...
There are two cameras filming the event, on either side of the flight deck and forward of midships - the cameramen can be seen at work on a number of occasions. The ship is steaming 15 knots and wind ...
Uses of flying boats in the war, starting with a Felixstowe flying boat coming in to land at its base, probably Hamble, followed by a rare CE1 flying boat also landing. The main subject of the film is...
The aircraft takes off from the flight deck, after which deck officers check the wind's speed relative to the ship. Most of the film shows the pilot's point of view. He overflies the carrier once, loo...
First, the seaplane carrier. A Short 184 seaplane is lifted from a seaplane carrier into the water and takes off. On return it is hoisted on board again. Then the launch from a capital ship. A Beardmo...
I. Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutters taking off and landing on HMS Argus, 1919 (?). Medium shot pan across a group of pilots standing before the chart house of HMS Argus. Medium close-up as lift brings up a Sop...