| EJECTOR SEAT GETS ROCKET A new design of aircraft ejector seat is tests in the Solent. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5848 |
| Catalog #: | 120968 | |
| Clip Number: | 120968-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 61/84 | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:59 - 01:31:56 | |
| Location: | Hampshire, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INVENTIONS: Testing LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Hampshire MILITARY: Equipment MILITARY: Multinational, NATO TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Parachuting / Skydiving TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Rafts | |
| Description: | "Solent. Ejector Seat Gets Rocket". Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire. View of boat out at sea. GV various groups of men most of them NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) officials on quay. CU the Swiss air attache Colonel Mosimann. SV Colonel. McIlhaney and his wife. MCIlhaney is from the American Strategic Air Command (SAC). LV the aircraft Lighter at sea. The rocket carrying the ejector seat is fired and zooms up into the air. LV the parachute descending. Closer shot with a dummy suspended from the chute. The dummy hits the water and an automatic raft inflates. SV the dummy floating in the raft. GV of second raft with an outboard motor is coming to the rescue. GV as another rescue raft comes into sight. Both head towards the floating dummy. SV the raft containing the dummy being attached by rope to the rescue raft. CU the dummy lying in the floating raft. | |
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