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Pick-A-Back Plane 1938
Description
Titles read: "PICK-A-BACK PLANE demonstration flight".
Rochester, Kent.
Various shots on the River Meadway of the Short Mayo Composite large flying boat Maia with the smaller seaplane Mercury on her back. The plane takes off from the river and flies over Rochester with the other boat...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 16343
- Sort Number:
- 38/017
- Time in/Out:
- 01:36:53:00 / 01:38:39:00
- Canister:
- 38/17
- Film ID:
- 955.48
- Issue Date:
- 28/02/1938
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The plane is the Short Mayo Composite, the only example of its type ever built.
The flight seen here took place on 6 February 1938.
SEE CLIP 953.41 FOR FOOTAGE OF THE PILOTS CHATTING AFTE THE FLIGHT.
SEE CLIP 933.45 FOR AN EARLY TEST FLIGHT OF THE LOWER HALF OF THE PLANE.
Thanks.