BRITISH SCREEN NEWS [1930] - THE FLYING BLUES [Main]

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Year: 1930
Runtime: 2 mins
Description: The cadets, on the ground, study maps. Two of them climb out of a Bristol F2B Fighter after a training flight. One has his parachute harness checked. Another tries to control his parachute on the ground, until the force of the wind takes him off his feet.
Newsreel item on training for Oxford University Air Squadron at Manston airfield, probably 1930.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Royal Air Force, Oxford University Air Sqdn / Oxford University / aircraft, British - combat: Bristol F2B Fighter / training, British air / equipment, British air - personal: parachute / GB, England & Manston, Kent
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
Production company: British Screen News
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Without sound
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