Other titles:RAF STRIKE COMMAND, HIGH WYCOMBE, VIDEOCASSETTE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RAF flight safety video magazine, introduced by Air Commodore Nattrass AFC, Air Cdre Ops HQSTC, and Wing Commander P B Atkins, and containing five items introduced by various Flight Safety Officers.
Description: I. Item stressing the importance of engineering checks - Squadron Leader Murphy discusses a problem he once encountered with his Hawk aircraft's control column during a training mission.
II. Details of a "Well Done" award given to Sergeant Whiteman, a fireman at RAF Honiton, whose sharp eyes spotted a problem with a Tornado.
III. Discussion of the risk of Tornado crashes after steep dives due to inadequate awareness of the risks involved.
IV. Reconstructions of incidents, one at Hanover on 6 May 1988, where a Chinook landing for an air display collided with an commercial airline passenger bridge when taxiing (with three fatalities) and a crash during an aerobatics at RAF Abingdon in September 1988 which resulted in two deaths.
V. Reconstruction of an emergency landing at Gibraltar involving a Buccaneer aircraft, described by the pilot, Flying Officer Mike Saunders; the undercarriage failed to retract and an engine shut down due to fire, but Flying Officer Saunders landed the aircraft safely and was awarded a Green Endorsement. (Good aerial shots of the Rock of Gibraltar.)
Alternative Title:RAF STRIKE COMMAND, HIGH WYCOMBE, VIDEOCASSETTE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFE 290
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1990-2000
Production Date:1989-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
Headquarters Strike Command Flight Safety Unit (Production company)
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
