Rocket Firing (1949)

ROCKET FIRING Beverley, Yorkshire. Several shots of a glider at flight. Glider is being chased by two Spitfires. Planes shoot the glider down by using rockets. This is one of the newest exercises at RAF’s (Royal Air Force) Central Gunnery School near Beverley, Yorkshire. Several shots of the Spitfires at various exercises with officer watching. They fly in formation, fire at ground targets, peel off on their way attacking other ground targets. 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.