Title:UNIVERSAL TALKING NEWS (1930) - A NINE TON BULLET [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 880-01e
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Summary: Newsreel item on experiments in launching aircraft by means of a steam catapult at Farnborough, 1930.
Description: A Vickers Virginia bomber is set up to be fired from one of the catapults. First, a pilot gets into a smaller aircraft, a Fairey IIIF (not a seaplane) which is launched by one version of the catapult, and goes on to overfly the airfield.