Collection search - Britain's First Jet Planes

AVRO

1975-0277

Film

1 of 1

1949

Matthew Nathan (Producer)

Power Jets

A history of jet aircraft in Britain. April 1937: Frank Whittle posing and view of his first jet engine. Factory where Whittle's engines were made. Animation showing principle of the jet engine. May 1941: Experimental Gloster E-28 powered by Whittle's engine taking off and flying. Views of the prototype of the Gloster Meteor and shots of 616 RAF squadron taking off in group in the Gloster Meteor; the first British squadron to be equipped with jets. 1948: Farnborough Air show: Bill Waterton standing by the first Meteor trainer. Shots of the following aircraft: D.H. Vampire; Hawker N7146, first naval fighter; Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 52, first jet allowing aircraft; the four-jet Tudor 8; the first jet airliner, the Nene Viking; the first jet flying boat, the Saunders Roe; the Meteor Mk IV taking off and stunting; and all the above mentioned aircraft taking off each in its turn, flying by etc.

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