Summary: Repairing and reassembling Hampden aircraft (ca 1941)
Description: Reel 1 (1005 ft): Hampden takes off. Administrative organisation - offices and flowcharts. Sorting parts of damaged aircraft, related paperwork. Cutting and fitting sheet metal to frame (fuselage sections). Women and men dismantling nose section, working on small parts. Cutting up damaged front section (for scrap ?), loading on to rail wagons. Office work, diagram of main parts of Hampden. Work on front fuselage sections, checking parts, assembling electrical wiring and testing. Testing hydraulics.
Reel 2 (994 ft): Testing tail wheel. Front and rear fuselage joined, painted, wheeled out of workshop. Testing instruments (altimeter in vacuum jar, gyroscopes on turntable). Main wing section on crane, moved into workshop. Inspection and work on wing parts (cabling, undercarriage etc). Fuel tank fitted. Testing undercarriage and ailerons. Painting. Work on engines, engines fitted to mountings for transport.
Reel 3 (664 ft): Assembly of complete aircraft (wing, nose, rear fuselage, tail). Attaching engines. Checking control surfaces, bomb doors. Completed aircraft wheeled out by repair team. Final engine check, start up. Test pilot boards, take off and landing.
