Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7147 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
TIGER MOTH; PETER JACKSON | 1982 | 1982-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 18 mins 36 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood Genre: Amateur Subject: Transport Industry Entertainment/Leisure Agriculture |
Summary An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood featuring his de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-ANZU) being flown by himself and a friend Peter Jackson from a small airstrip near Ermine Street, Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. From onboard views of the surrounding landscape as well as the A1M motorway, Grafham Water and the Peterborough Steam Traction Engine Rally. Ken also flies the aircraft low over Huntingdon Racecourse and takes two teenage boys up for a ride where he performs a series of aerobatic manoeuvres including a loop-the-loop. The final section of the film features a parade of traction engines and a group attempting to win a tug-o-war against an engine. |
Description
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood featuring his de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-ANZU) being flown by himself and a friend Peter Jackson from a small airstrip near Ermine Street, Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. From onboard views of the surrounding landscape as well as the A1M motorway, Grafham Water and the Peterborough Steam Traction Engine Rally. Ken also flies the aircraft low over Huntingdon Racecourse and takes two teenage boys up for a ride where he performs a series of aerobatic...
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood featuring his de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-ANZU) being flown by himself and a friend Peter Jackson from a small airstrip near Ermine Street, Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. From onboard views of the surrounding landscape as well as the A1M motorway, Grafham Water and the Peterborough Steam Traction Engine Rally. Ken also flies the aircraft low over Huntingdon Racecourse and takes two teenage boys up for a ride where he performs a series of aerobatic manoeuvres including a loop-the-loop. The final section of the film features a parade of traction engines and a group attempting to win a tug-o-war against an engine.
A man in white overalls pushes de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-ANZU) out of a hanger and proceeds to look over its engine. From onboard the Tiger Moth which taxis towards the grass runway and takes off into the sky flying over the A1M motorway and fields as well as well as Grafham Water near Huntingdon. The aircraft proceeds to fly over the Peterborough Steam Traction Engine Rally.
Back at the airfield a group of men sit near several parked aircraft, one of them looks up into the sky using binoculars. Several parachutists come into land on the airfield.
The man seen previously turns the Tiger Moth on the runway before it takes off again into the sky flying alongside the A1M motorway and circling both the airfield as well as various arable fields. It comes into land.
Two men work to push a smaller red Cassutt Special air racer (Reg: G-AZHM) out of a hanger and check it over. One of men sits in the plane putting on a seatbelt while the other checks out the undercarriage areas. The word ‘Screwdriver’ is stencilled on the fuselage.
The pilot puts on his helmet, the engine is started as the aircraft taxis towards the runway changes to it flying in the sky above before coming into land on the strip. As the pilot gets out a second air racer painted white (Reg: G-AXDZ) sits parked nearby, its pilot sitting in the cockpit before taxiing towards the grass runway.
Two men sit in a vintage car as a Reims Cessna FRA150L (Reg: G-BACC) taxis off the airstrip towards the hanger. In the sky above the air racer speeding past.
Ken Ellwood climbs into his de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-ANZU) and puts in his flying goggles. In a nearby field a twisters or dust devil. Once again from onboard the aircraft as it flies over the hanger, a church, and Grafham Water again. The aircraft then flies low over Huntingdon Racecourse circling around the circuit. From the ground the Tiger Moth in the sky performing aerobatic stunts including a loop-the-loop before coming back into land. A boy in a green puffer jacket gets out and another boy gets in, and the Tiger Moth takes off again performing the same aerobatic tricks as before coming back into land. It quickly is turned around on the grass before taking off again and flying overhead.
A parade of steam traction engines slowly moving around a showground with large crowds watching from behind rope barriers. A tug-o-war between a Burrell General Purpose traction engine and a large group of people, the engine wins.
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