USA Launching Aircraft By Catapult (1922)

Item title reads - Shooting aeroplanes into the air. Remarkable new apparatus, development of schoolboys’ catapult, enables seaplanes to take off from deck of battleship. America, (USA). Exact location unknown. M/S as the seaplane is suspended in mid-air on a hoist. M/S of the aeroplane on the catapult device, which looks like a long conveyor belt. L/S as the aircraft turns to get into position and shoots off the end. L/S as it flies along. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984.