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CU Sign showing 7th World Championships
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LV Aircraft lined up
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SF and ZOOM INTO Swiss palne being worked on
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LV PAN FORM plane taxi-ing to Soviet aircraft with mechanics working on it (2 shots)
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LV & CU U.S. plane being pushed onto tarmac and getting last minute attention (3 shots)
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LV PAN plane taxi-ing past as girl watches (2 shots)
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Ground to Air of plane taking off and doing a half roll as people watch (2 shots)
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Ground to Air of plane doing loops, stalls rolls etc. (2 shots)
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CU Child watches
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Ground to Air another plane doing aerobatics (3 shots)
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CU Man watches
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Ground to Air planes in formation flying over
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TEAMS PRACTISING: SPECTATORS WATCHING: FORMATION FLYING.




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Background: The seventh world Aerobatic championships are being held this month near Marseilles in the south of France. The event -- also known as the Olympics of the Air -- is held every two years and this year is being contested by sixteen nations. The world titled is held by the United States.

SYNOPSIS: The seventh World Aerobatics Championships are being held this month near Marseilles in southern France.

The event, which is held every two years, is also known as the Olympics of the Air.

The world aerobatics title is presently held by a team form the United States, which won it in England two years ago. It was the first time that a team form a non-Communist country had won it.

The championships were first held in nineteen-sixty. This year, sixteen nations are taking part.

It is a spectacular event with pilots putting their specially-built 'planes through the most heart stopping manoeuvres sometimes only a matter of feet above the ground.

All of the teams have been practising for months to get up to the necessary standard. Nor is aerobatics a cheep spot, and the money needed to take part is not always easy to raise.

The United States team, for instance, was not supported by the US Olympics organisation. the team had to fly in air shows in america to raise funds to defend its title. The Americans fly an aircraft known as the Pitts Special. Many aviation experts consider it to be the ultimate in a sports flying machine.

In practice for this year's Olympics of the Air, the team form the Soviet Union showed it would be a considerable threat to the Americans.