Newsreel item on Supermarine Southampton flying boats of 201 Squadron taking off for a goodwill tour of the Baltic from Calshot, September 1930.
Newsreel item on Supermarine Southampton flying boats of 201 Squadron taking off for a goodwill tour of the Baltic from Calshot, September 1930.
The cadets, on the ground, study maps. Two of them climb out of a Bristol F2B Fighter after a training flight. One has his parachute harness checked. Another tries to control his parachute on the grou...
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,...
The Supermarine S6B racing seaplane S1595 comes in to land beside the monitor HMS Medea. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Boothman, comes on board to the applause of the crew, and talks with the team capt...
The R101 has had an extra section added to make it the world's largest airship. It takes off lightly from its launch ground, and docks onto a mooring mast.
Newsreel item on the airship R101 after...
A Vickers Virginia bomber is launched from the catapult. On the second launch the camera shows the view from the front of the bomber as it flies forward out of the catapult.
Newsreel item on expe...
The crews, of 203 Squadron, say goodbye to their families at the water's edge and take launches out to their flying boats. A number of newsreel cameramen, including one on a Pathé sound van, record t...