50th Anniversary Of The Royal Air Force: Fifty Years Of History (1968)

Uxbridge - Middlesex, Colerne - Wiltshire and Catterick -Yorkshire. . (Royal Air Force, RAF) regiment on parade - the Queen’s Colours Squadron. Various shots of the men marching. Spitfires fly past then shots of a staged “dog fight“. Plane is blown up on the ground - scene from the feature film “Battle of Britain“ being made. We see the camera crew. (Note: more good footage of this in the cuts.) Firefighting demonstration at the fire school of the RAF regiment depot at Catterick, Yorkshire. A Javelin aircraft is on fire and we see the firemen putting out the blaze and dragging the pilot clear. Nice footage. Rapier - Britain’s new mobile surface to air missile - is assembled in record speed by men in khakis. Various shots of our latest supersonic missile. In Colerne in Wiltshire we see demonstration of RAF’s airfield defence techniques. There is a mock battle with good footage of men firing rifles and anti aircraft guns, men sliding down ropes suspended from RAF helicopter, firing m