OUR NAVAL AIR POWER [Main]


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  • År: 1918
  • Varighed: 74 mins
  • Beskrivelse: (Reel 1) Aerial view of Cranwell. Medium close-up of Commodore Luce; instruction of trainee ground crew and probationary flight officers; wireless school; gunnery practice with Maxim MG and Lewis on simulator; learning to taxi a Short bomber; training flight in BE2Cs; USN officers attached for instruction; a "War Flight" of Sopwith Pups scrambles (Sopwith Camels cut in at take off); flight of HP 0/400s; aerial view of trenches and a large town; long shot of aircraft in spiral nose dive; Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter lands and pilot climbs out. (Reel 2) Kite balloon launched and towed to waiting vessel. SS airships launched for coastal patrol. Medium close-up as airship is bombed up. Aerial view of HMS Furious. Airships landing and returning to sheds. Pilots and mascot. Fleet anchorage - Colossus Class battleship flashes a signal - medium long shot off port quarter of an Iron Duke, with Marksman Class Leader alongside, as No 9 Rigid, R34, passes overhead. (Reel 3) Seaplanes: mechanics at work; Sopwith Baby on trials; Short 184 bombed up; Short 830 and 184 take off on patrol (Lord Clive Class monitor in background). Aerial views of HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious. (Reel 4) Short Seaplane flies over fleet. Felixstowe flying boats are launched and taxi to take off. Aerial view of Felixstowe base and a convoy at sea. Close-up as observer takes photographs. Airmen receive medals. End medium shot of Iron Duke Class battleship, and pan across anchorage.
    Training and operational aircraft and airships of the Royal Naval Air Service in Great Britain, 1917-1918.
  • Nøgleord: EFG1914 / World War I / Luce, John / Cayley, George Cuthbert / Royal Navy, FURIOUS (HMS), light cruiser / Royal Navy, COURAGEOUS (HMS), light cruiser / Royal Navy, GLORIOUS (HMS), light cruiser / Royal Air Force, Air College, Cranwell / Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Service / United States Navy & Air Corps / ships, British naval - battleship: Glorious / ships, British naval - battleship: Courageous / ships, British naval - battleship: Colossus Class / ships, British naval - battleship: Iron Duke Class / ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, fleet: Furious / ships, British naval - gunship: Lord Clive Class / aircraft, British naval - combat: Short Bomber & [R and D] / aircraft, British naval - combat: Royal Aircraft Establishment BE2c / aircraft, British naval - combat: Handley Page 0/400 / aircraft, British naval - combat: Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter / aircraft, British naval - combat: Sopwith Camel / aircraft, British naval - combat: Sopwith Pup / aircraft, British naval - combat: Sopwith Baby / aircraft, British naval - combat: De Havilland DH4 / aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Short 830 / aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Short 184 / aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Felixstowe F2A flying boat / aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Felixstowe F3 flying boat / aircraft, British naval - airship: C23A / aircraft, British naval - airship: C24 / aircraft, British naval - airship: R34 / aircraft, British naval - balloon: observation kite balloon / weapons, British naval air - smallarm (mounted): Lewis machine gun / weapons, British naval air - smallarm (mounted): Maxim machine gun / weapons, British naval air - bomb / operations, British naval air - preparation / operations, British naval air - sortie / operations, British naval air - return / training, British naval air - combat / training, British naval air - specialist: wireless school / training, United States naval air - combat / animals, mammals: dog (mascot) / defences, British - emplacement: trenches (training) / 12/3(261.2).7 / 17/3(141) / Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, UK
  • Udbyder: Imperial War Museums
  • Rettigheder: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produktionsselskab: Engholm, F W
  • Farve: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound