VIXEN ATTACK (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: VIXEN ATTACK (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 908
  • Other titles: SEA VIXENS AT RNAS YEOVILTON [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Unedited rushes of a De Havilland Sea Vixen at RNAS Yeovilton.
  • Description: I. Various shots showing Sea Vixen XJ 606 landing at RNAS Yeovilton with ammunition expended. II. Sequence showing a Vixen taking off, fully armed: pilot dons mask and signals "start up and away chocks"; chockman removes chock; aircraft taxies away to dispersal, passing a Gannet, Heron and Venoms; LS as Vixen XJ 601 takes off and climbs steeply. III. Sea Vixen cockpit. CUs of the pilot's attack sight - the pilot adjusts the wing span setting from 20 to 100. IV. LA.CU of a Sea Vixen, parked nose on to the camera, with pylons empty, with four pods of 2-inch rockets, and then with four clusters of 3-inch rockets. CUs of 2-inch and 3-inch rockets on the starboard wing. V. Firestreak air-to-air missile. Slow MCU track from the tail to the nose of the missile. CU of infra-red sensor in the nose (windows of the nose cone are transparent) - sensor begins to scan.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (ADM 908)
  • Featured Period: 1945-1975
  • Production Date: 1961
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Stewart Films (Production company)
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  • Keywords: aircraft, British naval - combat: De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.1 (object name) weapons, British air - rocket: 2-inch (object name) weapons, British air - rocket: 3-inch (object name) weapons, British naval air - missile: Firestreak (object name) equipment, British - fire control: Firestreak infra-red sensor (object name) GB, England & Yeovilton, Somerset <RNAS Station> (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: 936 ft; Running time: 10 mins
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