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Compilation of footage of various aircraft and equipment trials, including:
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Sequences include:
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'Trials of ASU Canopy Escape Tool, A&AEE Jan 1964.' This film provides footage of a small canopy escape tool, much like a small sharpened hammer being tested on more than one type of aircraft cockpit canopy, including: a Gloster Meteor Mk 8 and a Hawker Hunter. Footage includes close up views of the tool itself and of the closed cockpit as a pilot attempts to use the tool to break the canopy, also included are views of the canopy once broken.
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Footage of a De Havilland Chipmunk and a Jet Provost undertaking arrester wire clearance trials.
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Ground footage of a Hawker Siddeley Andover and Short Belfast taking off from Boscombe Down in snow.
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Footage of hovercraft tests.
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Footage of an English Electric Lightning landing.
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Footage of Blackburn Buccaneer seat trials at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, including pilot rocket ejections and footage providing front, side and close up views.
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Footage of English Electric Canberra 'WJ638' performing a runway seat ejection and a seat and dummy ejection at Larkhill.
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Footage of inflatible tent wind velocity tests.
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Footage of English Electric Lightning undercarriage wheels on braking.
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Footage of double firing of Blackburn Buccaneer seats at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.
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Footage of an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy performing two extractor chute runs.
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Footage of static tests; high speed photos of a bolt shearing.
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16mm