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Title:INSPECTION OF RINGWAY AND TATTON PARK PARACHUTE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ARY 22-6
Other titles:
Summary: A staff officer inspects a parachute training school.
Description: After repeated shots of the inspection, a Hudson drops a stick of parachutists. Repeat shots of the lake jump precede good shots of captive balloon drops from both the ground and the cradle. One of the demonstrators has the name Cumberland written on his helmet together with a tally of the balloon (3) and aircraft (5) descents undertaken so far.
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)
Cumberland (Private) (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, United States - combat: Lockheed Hudson & [British] (object name)
aircraft, British - balloon: parachute training (object name)
Ringway, Cheshire, England, UK (geography)
Tatton Park, Cheshire, England, UK (geography)
half-light (concept)