Aerial Warship (1927)

Item title reads: “Aerial Warship. American all-metal ’plane - weighing over 8 tons & carrying 6 guns, proves successful in first test flight.“ Mitchell Field, United States of America (USA). M/S of two men, one in a flying helmet, sitting in a gun turret of a plane, rotating the turret with two machine guns, operating as a swing action gunner. M/S large biplane taxiing towards camera and taking off. Aerial shot, air to air, of the plane in flight accompanied by two smaller biplanes. They fly in formation. FILM ID:696.2 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 (1934-1