Other titles:RAF STRIKE COMMAND, HIGH WYCOMBE, VIDEOCASSETTE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF flight safety video magazine, introduced by Air Vice Marshal John Thompson, AOC 1 Group (ACAS(DES)), and containing eight items introduced by various Flight Safety Officers.
Description: I. "Airmiss - Helicopters vs Fast Jets". Squadron Leader D L Warner discusses the hazard of near misses of helicopters (military and civilian) by fast jets, illustrated by cockpit footage. Visit to Headquarters Joint Air Miss Section at RAF Uxbridge; accounts and reconstructions of incidents. Group Captain John Maitland gives advice on how to avoid air misses.
II. VISORS and ZIP UP. Two saucy safety "flashes" featuring a glamorous girl.
III. "Who's Watching the Engineer?" Squadron Leader P J Bonsall discusses three cases in which engineering mistakes led to air crashes.
IV. V-STOP/V-GO and SAFF WEAPONS. Two saucy safety "flashes" featuring a glamorous girl.
V. "Fuel Mismanagement." Squadron Leader Andy Melville-Jackson discusses various incidents in which errors lead to aircraft having fuel problems.
VI. RIS/RAS. Another saucy safety flash featuring a glamourous girl.
VII. "Be Aware". Squadron leader Chris Pitt discusses three incidents which note how many serious accidents are caused by errors with target fixation (concentrating more on the target than on dangers within the immediate surroundings). The incidents are an exercise with a Harrier Squadron in Dumfries in which an aircraft crashes (pilot ejects) and two fatal accidents captured on film at Otterburn range, one on 2 November 1987 in which two Harriers collide in mid-air, and a German Tornado pilot who misjudges the terrain and crashes on to the ground (21 January 1986).
VIII. Final brief item in which Wing Commander Pete Atkins CFSO and his comrades wish everyone well for 1989.
Alternative Title:RAF STRIKE COMMAND, HIGH WYCOMBE, VIDEOCASSETTE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFE 289
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1990-2000
Production Date:1988-12
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
Headquarters Strike Command Flight Safety Unit (Production company)
SSVC (Production company)
Melville-Jackson, Andy (Production individual)
Melville-Jackson, Andy (Production individual)
Headquarters Strike Command Photographic Section (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: U-matic
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 25 mins
