This black & white educational film is about the aircraft display of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. This is circa the mid-to-late-1950s.
Opening titles: British Information Services presents “Achievement In The Air” (:07-:34). Great Britain. Aircraft display of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors aka the Farnborough Airshow.. People wait in line to go into a plane and look at it. A de Havilland Comet and a Bristol Type 167 Brabazon. Large crowds. Many different countries show up to look. Planes are scattered around the tarmac as people look at them. Hermes 5 plane comes by in the air (:35-2:01). Handley Page HP.81 Hermes civilian airliner — the Hermes V — flies. Blackburn Universal Freighter flies and lands. A jeep drives off of the back of the freighter. Nomad Lincoln Avro Type 694 four engine bomber. Westland Sikorsky S-51 Helicopter. Bristol 171 Mark Three helicopter does sharp turns. Navy Fairey Gannet plane takes off (2:02-3:51). Fairey Gannet flies. SA-4 Bomber is the Royal Air Force’s V-Bomber. Short SA-4 Sperrin flies. The English Electric Canberra is a jet powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid-to-late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havilland. It goes high into the sky(3:52-5:05). The de Havilland DH 112 Venom is a British post-war single-engined jet aircraft developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. The Venom spins in the sky. Gloster Meteor jet fighter takes off down the runway and flies. Plane does twists in the sky (5:06-6:35). The P.1067, an RAF (Royal Air Force) plane flies into the sky. It is a very fast plane. A man films it with a super 8mm camera. Delta Wing experimental planes. The Boulton 4-111 flies into the sky. Avro 707B experimental aircraft takes off. The plane flies in the sky. 707A in the sky. A 707B lands (6:36-8:25). Vickers Supermarine 508 naval fighter flies in the sky. 508 flies alongside a prototype. Vickers Valiant strategic bomber takes off into the sky. This was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force’s “V bomber” strategic deterrent force. The Valiant flies (8:26-10:05). End credits (10:06-10:11).
The Society of British Aircraft Constructors (SBAC) was the trade body for the British aerospace industry. As well as lobbying for the interests of the industry, it organised the Farnborough Air Show. The organistation later became known as the Society of British Aerospace Companies.
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