Aircraft Establishment 1968

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Item title reads - Open day at Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment. Boscombe Down, Bournemouth. Dorset.

M/S plane, various shots of the plane. M/S pilot. C/U sign 'The Million-Air' painted on side of plane. C/U front of the heat generator, which is in operation, showing vaporised...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
57010
Sort Number:
68/098
Time in/Out:
01:35:05:00 / 01:36:17:00
Canister:
68/98
Film ID:
2085.15
Issue Date:
05/12/1968

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