Title:OPERATION TELIC 1 (RAF MOBILE NEWS TEAM TAPE 18) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFR 228
Other titles:RAF STRIKE COMMAND MOBILE NEWS TEAM - MAY 2008 DELIVERY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at Prince Sultan Air Base, Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
Description: START 00:00:23 General views of the Air Base from cockpit of moving Tornado F3, passing parked aircraft including Tornados, F16 Fighting Falcons, RAF VC10 Tankers, US Air Force KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft. F3 waits on runway and takes off: arid landscape passes below. Various cockpit and landscape shots, and aerial views of Prince Sultan Air Base. Aircraft comes in to land again.
09:31:12 Air-to air shots of Tornado F3 aircraft flying to the right of the camera-aircraft. Boeing VC10 tanker aircraft comes into view; the F3 lines up by the refuelling hose. Camera-aircraft also comes behind to refuel. Close shots of fuel hose basket making contact with refuelling boom on both Tornado aircraft
15:17:23
00:00:00 (Time code resets) Air-to-air shots of Tornado F3 (ZE162). Cameraman (in the navigator's seat) focuses on a packet of Maltesers balanced on the console, which the cameraman proceeds to open; he turns the camera to focus on himself eating. Pilot turns towards the navigator's and removes his mask, pointing to his mouth in an indication that he wants a Malteser. Cameraman obligingly rolls a Malteser towards him along the sill of the cockpit canopy.
END 02:40:00
Alternative Title:RAF STRIKE COMMAND MOBILE NEWS TEAM - MAY 2008 DELIVERY [Allocated Series Title]