CRASH FIRE DEMONSTRATIONS AT ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, OCTOBER 20 1927 [Main Title]

Log in to create clips, download free screeners and save clips/films in Collections. Click here to find out more.


  • Title: CRASH FIRE DEMONSTRATIONS AT ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, OCTOBER 20 1927 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MTE 9
  • Other titles: MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: In front of an airship hangar, an Avro 504K, formerly of the Cambridge University Air Squadron, has been placed in a crashed attitude and is then torched. The film records the destruction of the aircraft. The same is done to a De Havilland DH 10.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MTE 9
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1919-1938
  • Production Date: 1927-10-20
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland DH 10 Amiens & [wrecked] (object name) aircraft, British - training: Avro 504K & [wrecked] (object name) GB, England & Farnborough, Hants <Royal Aircraft Establishment> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 595 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MTE 9

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:
Register