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Lightning - Rocket launcher trials over range target

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC93/560

Film illustrating weapons trials involving an English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft. Rockets and bombs are tested against ground targets on a coastal range and an air-to-air missile against a drone.

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R-100 leaving hangar, circa 1930

Film & Sound, FC93/92

Film in which the airship R100 is moved out of a hangar at Cardington and secured to a nearby mooring tower. Some damage to a tail surface may be visible.

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Recorded interview with Squadron Leader Ivor Llewellyn Jules Robinson, 3 August 2006

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6758

Squadron Leader Ivor Robinson trained as an apprentice at Halton and served at sea in Royal Navy aircraft carriers. He later served in the Far East and with the V-force.

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The unquiet world - A ministerial broadcast by the Rt Hon Duncan Sandys MP, Minister of Defence

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/431

Film in which Duncan Sandys, defence minister, explains the aim of British defence policy in light of the communist threat, and outlines the UK’s world-wide defensive alliances and military deployments.

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Vulcan scramble

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC79/151/2

Film in which four Vulcan bomber aircraft are seen on operational readiness platforms beside a runway. An order is given to scramble and the aircraft take off in rapid succession.

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SBAC 1964, 92 Squadron Lightnings

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC91/48

Film showing various transport aircraft, helicopters and aerobatic displays by the Yellowjacks and Red Pelicans teams at Farnborough. Pilots and Lightning aircraft of 92 Squadron are seen at RAF Leconfield.

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Interception control

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/288

Film in which Soviet Tu-95 ‘Bear’ aircraft are tracked by RAF radar operators and plotters and English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft scramble to intercept. Lightnings are seen escorting the Bear.

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Flight testing of Spitfire Vs from Castle Bromwich

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/216

Film in which new Spitfire fighter aircraft are test-flown before being collected by pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary. The aircraft are seen on the ground and in air-to-air footage.

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Bristol material - rolls one to ten

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC94/514

Film showing aircraft of the Bristol Aircraft Company, including Bristol Brabazon and Britannia passenger aircraft and appearances by a Bristol Sycamore helicopter, Bristol 173 helicopter and a Bristol Freighter aircraft.

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249 Squadron Mustang Mk. IIIs

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC95/32

Film in which RAF ground crews are seen carrying out maintenance work on Mustang IIIs of 249 Squadron on an airfield. The Mustangs are then seen taxiing and taking off.

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