Catapult Ships Royal Navy Instructional Film (1940)
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Catapult Ships Royal Navy Instructional Film (1940)
A fascinating film. I had no idea that so many sailors were required to launch and recover aircraft! I also learned a plethora of nautical terms related to the lines and crane operations.
Mostly showing Walruses, but some interesting shots at the end of a wheeled Hawker Nimrod ditching, a Hawker Osprey (?) launching, where the occupant of the rear cockpit fell out and pictures of Sea Otters landing.
Mostly showing Walruses, but some interesting shots at the end of a wheeled Hawker Nimrod ditching, a Hawker Osprey (?) launching, where the occupant of the rear cockpit fell out and pictures of Sea Otters landing.
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Bloody Youtube! Amidst all the dross are some absolute gems, which often lead to more gems and, and ... we need a sticky Youtube thread!
What a super vid - voice over sounds a bit like Harry Enfield!
What a super vid - voice over sounds a bit like Harry Enfield!
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voice over sounds a bit like Harry Enfield!
Can someone lookup S1800 and tell me if it is an Osprey?
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Thanks Dave. I wondered if it was a Fairey, but I was put off by what I thought was a radiator under the fuselage. In retrospect, the slats should have told me! Uncle Roger would slap my wrist!
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Did you notice the very strange pronunciation of “tackle”?
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The "Hooker on" was either brave or lacking in imagination....sitting on a slippery wing just in front of a spinning propellor.
VMT for the good find, India Four Two.
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Can also buy the DVDs:
There are a lot of other IWN DVDs available too.
There are a lot of other IWN DVDs available too.
Tay-kle I'm familiar with,though britch is new to me.
The other RN pronunciation that always sounded odd from day one was tur-bin (ie turbine)
The other RN pronunciation that always sounded odd from day one was tur-bin (ie turbine)
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then I remembered "britches.
"breech" and "tackle" are obviously non-U!
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I hope everybody spotted the Sea Otter at the end of the film, hoping furiously to be mistaken for its older brother! Also what about the very strange fin flash on Walrus K5773, never seen anything like it. Remember that the finflash was removed from all RAF (and RN) aircraft in 1934, and were only reinstated during the fall of France. And it is pretty obvious why accidents during launching of these aircraft with catapults did occasionally go very wrong because somebody forgot to do something at the exact right moment - what a nightmare of a procedure. Makes operating contemporary landplanes look like a stroll in the park.
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U is so not me!
Tay-kle I'm familiar with,though britch is new to me.
My father joined the R.N. in 1925 as a Boy Artificer, retired in 1960 as a Lt Cmdr. He spent all that time in the Ordnance branch, who maintained the guns. Never once heard him refer to it as a britch.
