HUGE BOMBING MACHINES [Main Title]

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  • Title: HUGE BOMBING MACHINES [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 234
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  • Summary: Handley Page 0/400 bombers, probably 41 Wing RAF at Coudekerque, Western Front, May 1918.
  • Description: One of the bombers taxies, checked by mechanics as it does so. Another is brought out of its hangar with its wings folded and prepared for flight, the wings being straightened and ladders put up to the engines. The flight mechanics lift its tail off a trestle. The machine is fitted with three different types of bomb, which are then fused, and fuel is pumped into the tanks. A Nieuport 27, with a French officer as its pilot, has been parked directly in front of the Handley Page for comparison of size.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 234
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Bassill, F A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Wing 41 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page 0/400 (object name) aircraft, French - combat: Nieuport 27 (object name) operations, British air - preparation (object name) weapons, British air - bomb (object name) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) Coudekerque, Nord, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 398 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 234

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