Title:INSPECTION OF RINGWAY AND TATTON PARK PARACHUTE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ARY 22-1
Other titles:
Summary: Staff officers inspects a parachute training school.
Description: A singleton parachutist lands in slow motion. At Tatton Park, a man jumps from a captive balloon and his 'chute deploys. A trainee descends a slide in the hangar onto a mat and rolls. Other training activities and apparatus is demonstrated and explained to the inspecting officers. Troops in the fuselage of a Whitley sing before the drop. Note the sergeant sports a parachute instructor's badge. A view through the Whitley floor is taken. At Ringway the inspecting officers inspect the Guard of Honour and the WAAF Band. A Whitley flies over and two canisters are dropped followed by a shot of a single parachutist.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
RAF Film Production Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Barratt, Arthur Sheridan (person)
Paget, Bernard Charles Tolver (person)
Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn 297 (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk II (object name)
aircraft, British - balloon: parachute training (object name)
Ringway, Cheshire, England, UK (geography)
Tatton Park, Cheshire, England, UK (geography)
half-light (concept)
