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For Plane Safety 1960
Description
Item title reads - For plane safety.
The sudsmobile spreads foam and water on a runway to reduce the risk of fire if plane has to make crash landing. Waddington, Lincolnshire.
Various shots of big tank containing water and foam. M/S pipes running from it, pans to spreader. M/S tank....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 52740
- Sort Number:
- 60/066
- Time in/Out:
- 01:38:25:00 / 01:39:15:00
- Canister:
- 60/66
- Film ID:
- 1688.18
- Issue Date:
- 15/08/1960
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It's perhaps interesting to note that this demonstration of the new Sudsmobile technique at Waddington was shown in cinemas on 15 August 1960 - just over a week later, on 23 August, the technique saved the two members of a Canberra which made a wheels-up landing there.