Title:PRACTICE AIR STRIKES AGAINST HMS BULWARK [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 3957
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Camera in a Hawker Hunter T.8 as it practises air strikes against the anchored commando carrier HMS Bulwark. Men of 809 Squadron scramble to their Buccaneer S.2 strike aircraft at RNAS Lossiemouth.
Description: Aerial sequence shot from a two-seater Hawker Hunter as it practises a series of low-level approaches and a steep diving attack on the anchored HMS Bulwark, then makes two low-level sweeps past HMS Danae (F.47) underway at sea, approaching first from astern of the frigate and then from dead ahead. CU of the pilot, Lieutenant Gedge, and his gloved hands on the control column. Cut to Lossiemouth air station where Buccaneer S.2 325 of 809 Squadron taxies past. Men scramble to their aircraft - an observer boards Buccaneer 322. LSs to aircraft 321 - 324 parked along the edge of the grass field. A Hunter flies high overhead, banking into a turn
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gedge, Timothy John Henry (person)
Royal Navy, BULWARK (HMS), aircraft carrier (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, DANAE (HMS), frigate (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Sqdn 809 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - amphibious: Bulwark & [-] (object name)
ships, British naval - frigate: Danae (F.47) & [-] (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Blackburn Buccaneer (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Hawker Hunter (object name)
training, British naval air - combat: air strike anti-ship (object name)
GB, Scotland & Lossiemouth, Moray <RNAS Station> (geography)
