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Pathe newsreels, from the lighthearted to the tragic

Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:44 pm

Never seen Pathe before, but just spent hours going through some old newsreels.

From the lighthearted about old WW1 adversaries meeting at an airshow in the 30s

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/ex-en ... as-friends

To the downright tragic as a navy fighter goes over the side of its carrier in 1958.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/naval-pilot-killed

Re: Pathe newsreels, from the lighthearted to the tragic

Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:10 pm

Wonder why he didn't eject or were the seats too basic in those days

Re: Pathe newsreels, from the lighthearted to the tragic

Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:48 pm

Two minutes to get to him - Is that standard response time (seems long to me)? I thought a helicopter on station would have been able to get to him quicker than that.

Wonder if he was injured in the crash, as I would've thought that he would have been able to have blown the canopy and crawled by out himself in that amount of time
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