Summary: The training and work of the Royal Naval Air Service.
Description: Over shots of a dinghy sailing race among moored warships, the commentary speaks of the importance of airpower in modern naval training. The film then provides a brief picture of some aspects of the training of personnel first in basic seamanship, later in specialised aircraft work (RNAS Shore Station HMS Heron): men and women receive instruction in aeroengine maintenance; aircrew (in classroom) are played recording of underwater noises as prelude to lesson on sonar buoys. (Film digresses to explain to the audience in a sequence in which a Firefly drops sonar buoys to guide its attack on a submerged submarine. The second half of the film shows a naval exercise (starting from Gibraltar) in which a strike force of Firefly and Sea Fury aircraft from a carrier "attack" a cruiser; the undercarriage of one Sea Fury collapses on landing back on the carrier. Closing commentary (over film of a Supermarine Attacker) pledges RNAS' constant readiness.
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 265
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1950
Production Country: GB
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British naval - combat: Fairey Firefly (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Hawker Sea Fury (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Supermarine Attacker (object name)
equipment, British naval - navigational: sonar buoys (object name)
operations, British naval air - surveillance (object name)
training, British naval air (object name)
GB, England (geography)
Gibraltar (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 929 ft; Running time: 10 mins
