Achievement

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1544A
Date Released
8 Jan 1959
Date submitted
8 Jan 1959
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rotodyne. DESCRIPTION: The Small World drifted some twelve hundred miles from Tenerife, then ditched in the sea. They cut the balloon adrift and sailed on in the small gondola. It was a fine achievement by these four British adventurers to reach Barbados safely. The Fairey Rotodyne vertical take-off and landing airliner has set a world record of 190.9 miles an hour over a closed circuit course. Finally, this is Britain’s English Electric Lightning fighter, originally known as the P1. It can fly at twice the speed of sound, between 12 and 14 hundred miles an hour. SHOTLIST: MS Rotodyne with rotor turning. Elevated shot same. MS wing flaps turning. MS Rotodyne takes off. MS pan - Rotodyne in flight. Elevated shot pan Rotodyne flies over. Same. LS to MS Rotodyne in flight.
Keywords
Aviation; Military
Locations
England; Berkshire; White Waltham
Card file number
75986
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
105
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Achievement', British Movietone News Issue No. 1544A, 8 Jan 1959. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/22798 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)