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Test Flight 263 B+W, 38 min, 1959. Follow a test flight in the charismatic Fairey Delta 2. Includes footage of the pre-war Schnieder Trophy and many contemporary aircraft.
Aeroelastic Phenomena & Related Research colour, 13 min, c.1964. Good footage of C-141 Starlifter flight testing and other US military aircraft of the 1960s. Langley Research Centre. Includes the famous Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse of 1940.
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Path From the Sky colour, 20 min, 1963. Research by the FAA in the USA into systems for making civil aviation safer, including: BLEU landing aid; APN-114; REGAL; red/white VASIS. Footage of TF-102 Delta Dart, DC-6 in-cockpit, Gulfstream 1, Convair 880 and Boeing 707 arrested landing.
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