World Air Speed Record 1939

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Full titles read: "GERMANY"

Various shots of Flight Captain Dieterle flying his single seater Heinkel plane in Germany. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) claim to have set a new world speed record of four hundred and sixty three miles an hour. L/S and M/S of Dieterle climbing out of his plane...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49952
Sort Number:
39/029
Time in/Out:
01:47:30:00 / 01:48:19:00
Canister:
39/29
Film ID:
993.37
Issue Date:
11/04/1939

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