STILETTO [Main Title]

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  • Title: STILETTO [Main Title]
  • Film Number: DEA 102
  • Other titles: COLLECTION OF FILMS FROM DERA ABERPORTH [Allocated Title]
  • Summary: Documentary following the progress of a Short SD2 Stiletto target aircraft, from being unpacked, being put together at Llanbedr, being loaded on to the aircraft and released. Film then switches to Aberporth to show the firing of a Thunderbird. (Some poetic licence here, Thunderbird was never fired against Stiletto.)
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: COLLECTION OF FILMS FROM DERA ABERPORTH [Allocated Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: DEA 102
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (DEA 102)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1974
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Defence (PE), Instrumentation and Ranges Department (Production sponsor) Royal Aircraft Establishment, Central Unit of Scientific Photography (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 267 ft; Running time: 8 mins
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    DEA 102

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