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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

1977-0205

Film

1 of 1

1957

National Film Board

director, Fergus McDonell; producer, Blanche Markle; Julian Biggs; scenario, Arthur Hailey; photography, Eugene Boyko; sound, John Locke; editing, Dennis Sawyer; sound editing, Bernard Bordeleau; special sound, Joan Edward

Mike Fitzgerald, James Doohan, Pat Moffatt, John Valentine, Gene Sandys, Anthony Hulme, Michael Conway, Neil Leroy

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This film profiles a senior Avro Aircraft test pilot, Dave Frost, who is working on high-altitude training tests on the CF-100 at the Malton facility. Frost is shown with is family, working with engineers in his office, and flying the Requested Flight Tasks (RFT). The film stresses production testing on aircraft just produced and aircraft already in production and experimental testing of new aircraft or equipment. There is a great deal of engineering work that occurs on the ground before the aircraft is test flown. ,During one of Frost's RFT's he attempts to take his aircraft to a higher altitude than before, the aircraft has a explosive decompression accident which knocks his flight observer unconscious, Frost has to perform a quick descent before he too is knocked unconscious from lack of oxygen and the atmospheric pressure. Frost manages to make an emergency landing at Malton. <30mn>

English

12-750

Open

V1 8504-0145

GAD 0FD579

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