HIGH SPEED FLIGHT - PART 1 - APPROACHING THE SPEED OF SOUND [Main Title]

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  • Title: HIGH SPEED FLIGHT - PART 1 - APPROACHING THE SPEED OF SOUND [Main Title]
  • Film Number: AMY 853
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  • Summary: An outline of the aerodynamics of flying at subsonic speeds and how aircraft and their design are affected as the critical Mach number is approached.
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  • Colour: Colour (Technicolor)
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  • Object_Number: AMY 853
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1959
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Shell (Production company) De Normanville, Peter (Production individual) Beale, Sidney (Production individual) Quick, J N, Squadron Leader (Production individual) Rodker, Francis (Production individual) Shaw, Archie (Production individual) Davie, Leslie (Production individual) Weinbren, Gerald (Production individual) Whitehouse, Ronald (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour (Technicolor) Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 3 Footage: 2463 ft; Running time: 27 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AMY 853

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    AMY 854 (HIGH SPEED FLIGHT - PART 2 - TRANSONIC FLIGHT [Main Title]) AMY 855 (HIGH SPEED FLIGHT - PART 3 - BEYOND THE SPEED OF SOUND [Main Title])
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