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Gloucester 1948
Description
Title reads: "GLOUCESTER".
Gloucester.
Canadian pilot, Squadron Leader Bill Waterton getting into the Gloster Meteor plane. He examines the wing flap of the plane. Bill Waterton in the cockpit, ready to take off. Close up shot of the jet aperture at the back of the plane. The plane...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 46253
- Sort Number:
- 48/006
- Time in/Out:
- 01:10:27:00 / 01:10:55:00
- Canister:
- 48/6
- Film ID:
- 1420.06
- Issue Date:
- 19/01/1948
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The aircraft is a Gloster Meteor.
More footage of this event can be seen in clip 2206.03.
Thanks.