Summary: Footage of a test carried out on a Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft (serial XL579), measuring the effects of an aircraft spinning whilst in flight.
Description: The film includes air to air footage of the Hunter in flight and during the spinning trial itself, in addition to sections showing the instrumentation used during the trials, both in the cockpit and on the ground. Also includes the pilots carrying out their pre-flight checks, boarding the aircraft, taxiing and taking off from the Boscombe Down airfield on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
