Fleet Air Arm (1962)

Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire. An item filmed at the annual Royal Tournament In the Open Air. Various M/Ss of the Women’s Royal Army Corps Band marching through some public gardens. Meanwhile at the Fleet Air Arm Base ... C/U of a man in a close fitting flying helmet, the director of operations, blowing a whistle. Men in flying helmets are seen running towards several fighter planes on a runway. One group of men are pushing a cart with missiles on which they fix to the underbelly of a plane - they are re-enacting the battle scene on an aircraft carrier’s deck. C/U of a man opening the cockpit, other men are seen running frantically around the plane preparing it for battle. C/U of four men in lifejackets - the pilots - looking at a map. The last of the ground crew leave the runway and the pilots climb into the cockpits. C/U of a pilot in a cockpit doing up his helmet. Various shots of the planes taxiing down the runway to take off. The launching crew squat on the ground waiting to attach the