AIR FORCE FILMS
TAKEN DURING COMBAT WITH ENEMY. AID IN THE INSTRUCTION OF PILOTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7. Films which were taken from Royal Air Force fighters while in combat with the enemy are now being used for the instruction of British pilots in fighting tactics. The King, when visiting a fighter command station in Scotland recently, saw one of these films, recording the interception and shooting down of a German raider. It was taken from the attaching British aircraft during the fight. Lined up with the fighter pilot’s eight guns there is a cine-camera, which operates automatically when the trigger-button sets the eight guns in action. It is focused on the target and makes an exact record of the bullets' path. When the pilot takes his finger off the trigger the guns cease firing and the camera stops taking pictures. It resumes its work with each burst of fire.
Seated comfortably in a darkened room, the lighter pilot will re-live the battle and perhaps note a mistake which enables the enemy to get away. In half a minute the “show" is over; then the film is run through again and again. Sometimes it is stopped at a crucial point to enable the pilot to study in detail exactly what happened.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 4
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