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Description: | British officer served as airship pilot with Royal Naval Air Service based at Mullion Airship Station, GB, 1918
REEL 1 Background to commission into Royal Naval Air Service, 8/1917: reasons; lack of practical flying experience; question of assignment to airships rather than aircraft. Aspects of period of balloon and SS Type Airship training at Wormwood Scrubs and Cranwell, 9/1917-12/1917: situation at Wormwood Scrubs and use of Hurlingham polo ground for balloon ascents; basic training; method of inflating balloons; size of balloons; procedure on take off; equipment carried; number of training flights.
REEL 2 Continues: reactions to first ascent aboard balloon Violet; method of controlling and landing balloon; special courses; first solo flight.
REEL 3 Continues: first solo flight; packing up and transportation of balloon on landing; problem with trail rope across railway line during night flight from Reading; mess life at Crystal Palace, 8/1917; division between aircraft and airship instruction at Cranwell; crew carried in airship car; difference between rigid and non-rigid airships; flying characteristics of airships.
REEL 4 Continues: airship controls; method of taking off in airship; importance of maintaining pressure in gas bag in flying airship; method of landing airship; reaction to first solo airship flight; effects of bad weather on airship control; later difficulties in landing and taking off at Toller mooring station, 1918.
REEL 5 Continues: stories illustrating difficulty in landing at Toller mooring station, 1918; cross country airship flights and navigation; flight in Parseval airship; special courses; bomb load and training.
REEL 6 Continues: Aspects of period as officer flying Coastal, SS Zero and SS Twin Type Airships at Mullion, 1918: operational role of station and Toller, Laira and Bude mooring stations; escort convoy patrols; duties on general sea patrols; use of wireless and semaphore flags to communicate with ships; night escort convoy patrol in English Channel; night landings.
REEL 7 Continues: method of night landing; story of Z14 running into tree during night landing at Laira; story illustrating method of passing escort of ships from one airship to another; experiments in use of hydrophone from airship; question of deterrent value on submarines of airship patrols; flying characteristics of SS Zero, Coastal and SS Twin airships; advantages of airship flying. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Verry, Frederick W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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