Other titles:TRIBUTE TO TREBLE ONE [Alternative Title]
Summary: Film featuring the 111 Squadron, "Black Arrows" aerobatics team.
Description: History of 111 Squadron (first as fighter squadron, then as display team) related against air to air shots of aerobatics. The Squadron at base: aircraft prepared by ground crews on a misty morning. Daily routine at the base (RAF Wattisham); running up the ensign, testing ejection seats, packing parachutes. Combat exercise: two Hunters from the squadron intercept and 'destroy' an enemy aircraft (good air-air sequence and shots of radar). Pilots of the now disbanded Black Arrows (earlier incarnation of 111 Squadron before the return to an active role) leave a building, passing a displayed Spitfire, and go to their aircraft. After a brief inspection of the 'planes the squadron takes off. The remainder of the film features the nine aircraft in formation and aerobatic flight - 'treble one loop', 'wineglass loop', swan, diamond formations, etc. Squadron Leader Peter Latham's cockpit instructions can be heard on the soundtrack.
Alternative Title:TRIBUTE TO TREBLE ONE [Alternative Title]
Production Details: A Films, Windsor (Production company)
Saunders, Peter (Production individual)
Saunders, Peter (Production individual)
Robins, John (Production individual)
Robins, John (Production individual)
Daville, Peter C (Production individual)
Oakes, Harry (Production individual)
Paul, Les (Production individual)
Telfer, D F (Production individual)
Baker, Roy (Production individual)
Paul, John (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Latham, Peter A (person)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn 111 (Black Arrows) (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hunter Mk 6 (object name)
ceremonies, British - display: aerobatics (object name)
GB, England & Wattisham, Suffolk <RAF Station> (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 3
Running time: 23 mins
