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Description: | British officer served as pilot with Royal Flying Corps in GB, 1917-1918; served with 34 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps in Italy, 1918
REEL 1: Aspects of operations with Royal Flying Corps in GB, 1917-1918: reason for volunteering for Royal Flying Corps; interview; tests; description of six weeks basic training; problem of fire; lack of parachutes and fire extinguishers; armaments; controls and manoeuvering aircraft; billeted with undertaker; attitude to other recruits; opinion of instructors; description of DH 6; story of forced landing; flying characteristics of DH 6; danger of going into a spin; flying height; description of uniform and clothing.
REEL 2 Continues: description of RE 8; armaments; opinion of Australians and advice about combat tactics; description of photographic equipment used for reconnaissance and photographic methods; memory of practice combats with Major William Barker VC; co-operation exercises with artillery. Aspects of operations with 34 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps in Italy, 1918: description of bombing bridges during Austrian offensive; story of Royal Flying Corps pilot shot down by Italian aircraft; opinion of Italian Air Force; problem of Austrian anti-aircraft fire; question of carrying bombs; engine failure.
REEL 3 Continues: organisation of 34 Sqdn; story of accident; problem of shooting own propeller; types of aircraft flown; relations between officers and other ranks in Roayl Flying Corps: story of attempting to join operations in Russia, 1919; description of new RAF uniforms, 1918; story of altitude flying in Malta, 1919; description of aircraft in 34 Sqdn | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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