Title:IRAQI AIR FORCE, JUNE 2007 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 959
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Footage (shot for possible inclusion in an Iraqi television commercial) showing the Iraqi Air Force (IAF) at work.
Description: Extended air-to-air shots of an Iraqi Air Force Sama CH2000 light aircraft (YI-104) in flight (taken from an IAF Seabird Seeker SB7L-360) over Basra and surrounding area - landscape below can be clearly seen and includes residential and industrial areas, as well as the edge of the desert: at 23 minutes an oil refinery can be seen, at 38 minutes, Basra Air Station/Contingency Operating Base and, at 49 minutes, several Iraqi Army 10 Divison Humvees on patrol near a water treatment plant. Cut-in shots of aircraft dials at various points. Final shots of the (American) pilot in the cockpit, and shots of cameraman Corporal Platfoot turning the camera onto himself. Aircraft comes in to land (cockpit view).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 959
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-06-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Platfoot, Loz (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Platfoot, Loz (person)
Iraqi Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
