This is Farnborough

A record of the 20th Flying Display and Exhibition, 1959, at Farnborough of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. Spectacular group flying by Royal Navy Scimitars and RAF Hunters; Britain’s principle guided missiles; the Short SC1 research aircraft; the Fairey Rotodyne; various helicopter designs; the Saunders-Rose Hovercraft.

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Credits

production company

British Movietone News

Central Office of Information

Duration

00:14:43:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1959

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

010827

Language

English

Subject categories

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Aeronautics - Great Britain

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Airplanes - Design and construction

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Airplanes - History

Crafts & Visual Arts → Exhibitions

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1959

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