Aviation Archive Registration Acknowledgements
BAC 100: 2010. Join in the Celebrations of 100 Years of Aviation in the West of England. Aviation image sequence: Photograph of the Bristol Flying School at Larkhill by T L Fuller © J T Fuller. Mercury engine installation diagram, courtesy of BAC/Rolls-Royce. Selection of old postcards from the collection of Jackie Sims. Photograph of A380 over Clifton Suspension Bridge courtesy of Airbus SAS 2006. Computer generated image of A350 XWB courtesy of Airbus. Artist's impressions of main exhibition by Simon Gurr. Sir George White (Airbus).
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Film Clips

This section provides links to a variety of film clips, some rarely seen by the general public and some newly digitised.

Our thanks to the Video Archive Team at Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Patchway for their help in compiling some of this material. None of this film material may be copied and re-used without the permission of the copyright holders.

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Assembly of a cylinder
Added: 29 September 2010

Part of a 'Bristol' Instructional Film on poppet valve engines used by apprentices at Patchway. [01:37 mins, 8.1MB]

Extract from 'Executive Report'
Extract from 'Executive Report'
03:13 mins, 18.9MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Extract from 'Brave Class: fast boats'
Extract from 'Brave Class: fast boats'
02:32 mins, 15MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Frank Whittle visit
Frank Whittle visit
01:59 mins, 11.8MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Assembly of a cylinder
Assembly of a cylinder
01:37 mins, 8.1MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Removal and renewal of push rod lower ends
Removal and renewal of push rod lower ends
02:11 mins, 10.5MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Removal of piston rings
Removal of piston rings
01:01 mins, 6.1MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Extract 5 from 'Take Care of Them'
Extract 5 from 'Take Care of Them'
01:25 mins, 6.9MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Extract 4 from 'Take Care of Them'
Extract 4 from 'Take Care of Them'
01:56 mins, 11.6MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Extract 3 from 'Take Care of Them'
Extract 3 from 'Take Care of Them'
01:58 mins, 11.6MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Extract 4 from 'History of Bristol Aircraft'
Extract 4 from 'History of Bristol Aircraft'
01:05 mins, 6.3MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Extract 3 from 'History of Bristol Aircraft'
Extract 3 from 'History of Bristol Aircraft'
01:50 mins, 10.8MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Extract from 'Concorde Comes Home'
Extract from 'Concorde Comes Home'
03:53 mins, 22.5MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Bristol Siddeley BS75 on test bed
Bristol Siddeley BS75 on test bed
01:53 mins, 11.2MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Pegasus and V/STOL
Pegasus and V/STOL
02:31 mins, 14.8MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Blenheims and Beaufighters
Blenheims and Beaufighters
02:21 mins, 13.9MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Brabazon's Maiden Flight, 1949
Brabazon's Maiden Flight, 1949
03:14 mins, 19.1MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
  Aerial Footage of Filton, 1918
Aerial Footage of Filton, 1918
02:01 mins, 12MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010

  Bristol Siddeley BS75 on test bed
TSR2 on the runway
00:49 mins, 4.9MB
Added: 29 Sept 2010
         
Concorde 216 comes home
Concorde 216 comes home
01:36 mins, 9MB
Added: 17 June 2010
  Maiden flight of A400M
Maiden flight of A400M
01:42 mins, 7.5MB
Added: 17 June 2010
  Extract from the adventure serial Lieutenant Daring and the Plans of the Mine Fields (1912)
Extract from the adventure serial Lieutenant Daring and the Plans of the Mine Fields (1912)
03:23 mins, 19MB
Added: 17 June 2010

         
Bristol Siddeley workers
Extract from footage of Type 188 tests
00:50 mins, 5.0MB
Added: 23 April 2010

  Bristol Siddeley workers
Bristol Siddeley workers
00:58 mins, 5.7MB
Added: 23 April 2010
  Extract from film about Bristol Freighter
Extract from film about Bristol Freighter
01:18 mins, 7.8MB
Added: 23 April 2010

         
Clips of Bristol Fighter (c 1917) and Bristol Brownie (c 1924)
Clips of Bristol Fighter (c 1917)
and Bristol Brownie (c 1924)

00:56 mins, 5.5MB
Added: 23 April 2010

  Extract from footage of Braemar tests
Extract from footage of Braemar tests
02:26 mins, 14.4MB

Added: 23 April 2010
  Extract from ‘Boxkite to Concorde’
Extract from ‘Boxkite to Concorde’
01:36 mins, 8.1MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010
         
Extract 2 from ‘History of Bristol Aircraft’
Extract 2 from ‘History of Bristol Aircraft’
03:53 mins, 21.7MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010

  Extract 1 from ‘History of Bristol Aircraft’
Extract 1 from ‘History of Bristol Aircraft’
01:34 mins, 9MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010
  Extract 2 from ‘Take Care of Them’
Extract 2 from ‘Take Care of Them’
01:22 mins, 6.5MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010
         
Extract 1 from ‘Take Care of Them’
Extract 1 from ‘Take Care of Them’

03:15 mins, 17.7MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010

  Assembly of Piston and Gudgeon Pin
Assembly of Piston and Gudgeon Pin
01:54 mins, 10.7MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010
  Extract from ‘Civil Aircraft Jet Propulsion’
Extract from ‘Civil Aircraft Jet Propulsion’
04:42 mins, 19.7MB
Added: 19 Feb 2010


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BAC 100 has received funding through South West Screen from the UK Film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund to make film of West of England aviation accessible for viewing via the website and at the exhibition at Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery.
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1st Take, based in Yate, has produced a series of historical and special interest aviation DVDs including Britannia Tragedy, Brabazon: The Beautiful Dream and Bristol Aircraft – A Century of Flight. Visit their website for details.

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