Amity Media Productions Ltd. | ||||
`Fifty Years of Powered Flight` -- Tape Ref. FYF | ||||
From the F.A.S.T. Film Archive | ||||
B&W, with commentary, chronicles history of powered flight in the first half of the 1900s. Emphasis on British aviation. | ||||
Scene | Tape Ref | Start T/C | End T/C | Shot Description |
1 | FYF | 10:00:19 | 10:00:26 | Santos Dumont in his 14-bis early bi-plane |
2 | FYF | 10:00:27 | 10:00:46 | Early seaplane glider on the Sienne, crash |
3 | FYF | 10:00:47 | 10:00:57 | Successful powered bi-plane (possibly Samuel Cody`s Army Airplane #1 first powered flight in Britain 1908) |
4 | FYF | 10:00:57 | 10:01:06 | Santos Dumont monoplane 1908 Demoiselle |
5 | FYF | 10:01:06 | 10:01:49 | Wilbur Wright demonstrates his plane in France in 1908 |
6 | FYF | 10:01:50 | 10:01:56 | Newspaper clipping, Wright flies across the English Channel |
7 | FYF | 10:01:56 | 10:02:20 | Latham in the Antoinette, failed attempt to fly across the Channel |
8 | FYF | 10:02:20 | 10:03:03 | Louis Bleriot monoplane 11-bis successful crossing of the Channel 25th July 1909 |
9 | FYF | 10:03:05 | 10:04:15 | Various bi-planes, Reims meeting 1909, Champagne Contest for distance |
10 | FYF | 10:04:16 | 10:05:04 | Graham White, London to Manchester race 1910 bi-plane |
11 | FYF | 10:05:04 | 10:05:12 | Daily Mail prize London to Paris air race |
12 | FYF | 10:05:13 | 10:05:27 | 1911 Coronation Aerial Post, first flight, Hendon to Windsor |
13 | FYF | 10:05:28 | 10:05:59 | Circuit of Europe contest, Hux monoplanes |
14 | FYF | 10:05:59 | 10:06:16 | Monoplane crashed into roof of house, led to ban of monoplanes |
15 | FYF | 10:06:16 | 10:06:38 | bi-planes, 1912 Cody wins military trials flying at Larkhill |
17 | FYF | 10:06:38 | 10:07:00 | BE2 deHavilland bi-plane |
18 | FYF | 10:07:01 | 10:07:34 | Sopwith Tabloiid bi-plane, seaplane, Schneider Trophy, pilot Howard Pixton 1914 |
19 | FYF | 10:07:35 | 10:07:54 | WWI recruitment poster, crowds in London, troops marching off to war |
20 | FYF | 10:07:55 | 10:08:03 | WWI soldiers on battlefield |
21 | FYF | 10:08:04 | 10:08:33 | BE2 & early Farman warplane, single seater bi-planes, Sopwith Pup |
22 | FYF | 10:08:33 | 10:08:53 | Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, 1st 2-seater fighter |
23 | FYF | 10:08:54 | 10:09:07 | Sopwith Camel |
24 | FYF | 10:09:08 | 10:09:29 | WWI, SE5, ground troops with planes flying overhead |
25 | FYF | 10:09:30 | 10:10:03 | D7 German Fokkers, dogfight, plane shot down, crashed wreckage |
26 | FYF | 10:10:03 | 10:10:55 | launching Shortts & Sopwiths off gun turrets of warships, planes ditching into sea, planes landing on deck |
27 | FYF | 10:10:55 | 10:11:32 | Shortt seaplanes on patrol, forerunner to future carrier-borne aircraft |
28 | FYF | 10:11:32 | 10:11:55 | John Port`s flying boats @ Felixstowe |
29 | FYF | 10:11:56 | 10:12:18 | Airships (possibly the Nulli Secundus), Zepplin |
30 | FYF | 10:12:18 | 10:12:46 | FE2b bomber |
31 | FYF | 10:12:46 | 10:12:58 | Sopwith Snipe, Handley Page 0400 |
32 | FYF | 10:12:59 | 10:13:15 | Barnwell`s Bristol Fighter, Farman, Bristol |
33 | FYF | 10:13:15 | 10:13:28 | Cheering crowds outside Buckingham Palace |
34 | FYF | 10:13:28 | 10:13:32 | Battleships at Scapa Flow |
35 | FYF | 10:13:32 | 10:13:39 | Assembled world leaders |
36 | FYF | 10:13:39 | 10:13:53 | High seas |
37 | FYF | 10:13:53 | 10:14:28 | Hawker & Mackenzie Grieve planning trans-Atlantic flight, boarding Sopwith Atlantic, take-off, failed attempt |
38 | FYF | 10:14:28 | 10:15:08 | Allcock & Brown attempt transatlantic flight in Vickers Vimy, land successfully in Ireland, newsclipping, cheering crowds |
39 | FYF | 10:15:08 | 10:16:00 | 1st scheduled aerial post, UK to Cologne |
40 | FYF | 10:16:00 | 10:16:22 | 1919 1st scheduled passenger air service, Hownslow to Paris |
41 | FYF | 10:16:25 | 10:16:56 | Roaring 20s, party boats on canal, cricket players, Wimbledon, Wembley, dancing the Charleston, parties |
42 | FYF | 10:16:57 | 10:17:21 | Rainy London, crowds in streets, politicians Baldwin, MacDonald, Ernest Bevin, wheels of industry |
43 | FYF | 10:17:21 | 10:17:28 | Stuntmen on wings of airplane in flight (also referred to as wing-walkers) |
44 | FYF | 10:17:28 | 10:17:46 | Horse-racing carts, motorbike stunt, car, plane & train stunt crashes |
45 | FYF | 10:17:46 | 10:18:17 | 1920s Avro 504, flying display |
46 | FYF | 10:18:18 | 10:18:56 | 1925 de Havilland Moth, flying club, people learning to fly |
47 | FYF | 10:18:56 | 10:19:25 | Formation of Imperial Airways, Croydon (forerunner to Gatwick Airport), Argosy passenger plane late 1920s |
48 | FYF | 10:19:25 | 10:20:54 | 1930s HP42, Imperial Airways |
49 | FYF | 10:20:54 | 10:21:16 | Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower, radio navigation |
50 | FYF | 10:21:16 | 10:22:09 | passenger plane in flight, interior view of cabin, India, plane taking off |
51 | FYF | 10:22:16 | 10:23:38 | Schneider Trophy 1925 Supermarine S4 Mitchell & Webster, S5, 1929 S6, 1931 S6b |
52 | FYF | 10:23:54 | 10:24:02 | Long-haul flight pioneers Ross & Keith Smith to Australia in a Vimy 1919 |
53 | FYF | 10:24:02 | 10:24:27 | Bert Hinkler Croydon to Darwin, Cobham to Capetown & India, Sir Sefton Brank, Kingsford Smith, Mollison, Gino Watkins - Arctic |
54 | FYF | 10:24:27 | 10:25:09 | 1927 monoplane, Lindbergh New York to Paris, cheering crowds |
55 | FYF | 10:25:09 | 10:25:34 | Amy Johnson returns from England - Australia flight in Argosy escorted by DH Moths |
56 | FYF | 10:25:34 | 10:25:49 | Flying boats, German DO X passenger plane |
57 | FYF | 10:25:49 | 10:26:38 | Graf Zepplin, Hindenberg disaster |
58 | FYF | 10:26:40 | 10:27:03 | Flying boats, Supermarine Southampton, Shortt Singapore, Calcutta |
59 | FYF | 10:27:03 | 10:27:17 | Men at drawing boards in aircraft design office, aircraft model |
60 | FYF | 10:27:17 | 10:28:35 | Canopus, Shortt sea class Empire Flying Boat, passengers boarding, plane taking off |
61 | FYF | 10:28:35 | 10:28:54 | North Atlantic route, Caledonia flying over New York 1938 |
62 | FYF | 10:28:54 | 10:29:04 | Douglas DC2 (TWA), DC3 |
63 | FYF | 10:29:04 | 10:29:55 | 1934 Mildenhall to Melbourne race for the McRobertson prize, Comet flown by Scott & Campbell Black, DC2 |
64 | FYF | 10:29:55 | 10:30:22 | C30 Autogyro early helocopter |
65 | FYF | 10:30:25 | 10:31:35 | British military aircraft, Fleet Air Arm, Hendon RAF display |
66 | FYF | 10:31:36 | 10:32:25 | 1935 RAF review, formation display of Gloster Gladiators |
67 | FYF | 10:32:25 | 10:32:54 | Junkers 52 flying over Europe, German Air Force |
68 | FYF | 10:32:54 | 10:33:01 | Britain preparing for WW1 |
69 | FYF | 10:33:01 | 10:34:02 | S6b becomes the Spitfire |
70 | FYF | 10:34:02 | 10:36:58 | WWII air battles, bombing raids, wreckage, Battle of Britain, German warplanes |
71 | FYF | 10:36:58 | 10:37:14 | warplane wreckage |
72 | FYF | 10:37:15 | 10:37:25 | fires in London after bombing raids |
73 | FYF | 10:37:25 | 10:37:49 | Wellington bomber |
74 | FYF | 10:37:49 | 10:38:11 | Sunderlands, Coastal Command |
75 | FYF | 10:38:11 | 10:38:59 | Frank Whittle, development of jet engine, experimental aircraft E28/39, 1941 |
76 | FYF | 10:38:59 | 10:39:46 | German V1 flying bomb |
77 | FYF | 10:39:46 | 10:42:12 | WWII fighter planes & bombers, Meteor, air battles, bomb dropping, Lancasters, Typhoons, Mosquitos, Horsa gliders, Dakotas |
78 | FYF | 10:42:13 | 10:42:46 | WWII aircraft carriers in the Pacific, air-sea battles |
79 | FYF | 10:42:46 | 10:42:57 | Hiroshima |
80 | FYF | 10:43:00 | 10:43:12 | United Nations building |
81 | FYF | 10:43:12 | 10:44:00 | London airport, Heathrow post WWII, Dakotas, DC4, Constellation, York, Lancastrian |
82 | FYF | 10:44:01 | 10:45:43 | 1950 air display various jet aircraft Vulcan, etc. Flying boat, Comet, Viscount, Britannia, Bristol 173 |
83 | FYF | 10:45:43 | 10:46:45 | Heathrow circa 1950s, passenger activity, shuttle buses, boarding planes, plane in hangar, terminal building |
84 | FYF | 10:46:46 | 10:47:43 | Rocket firing, view of earth from space |