UNIVERSAL TALKING NEWS [1930] - A NINE TON BULLET [Main]


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  • Year: 1930
  • Runtime: 3 mins
  • Description: A Vickers Virginia bomber is set up to be fired from one of the catapults. First, a pilot gets into a smaller aircraft, a Fairey IIIF (not a seaplane) which is launched by one version of the catapult, and goes on to overfly the airfield.
    Newsreel item on experiments in launching aircraft by means of a steam catapult at Farnborough, 1930.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Royal Air Force / Air warfare / aircraft, British - combat: Vickers Virginia & [R and D] / aircraft, British - combat: Fairey IIIF / engineering, military, British / GB, England & Farnborough, Hants
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Universal
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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