Historic parachuting newsreal footage available

[pilotdave 0]

Thanks to Craig Poxon, a collection of parachuting related newsreal movies are now available on skydivingmovies.com. The videos come from British Pathe. My favorite so far is 345.01.wmv. It's about the Golden Knights teaming up with the Red Devils for some helicopter jumps, 1965 style.

985.53.WMV is about a 1938 AAD...of sorts.

The movies range in date from pre 1920 through the 60s. Lots of great stuff, and all small sizes. Most are around 1 meg.

You can find them in the /BritishPathe/ folder.

Dave

[sweeney 0]

cool

[Raefordite 0]

Thanks for the tip! Raeford Parachute Center is doing a Skydiving History weekend in July - a tribute to Bill Ottley, etc. It will give me a few more resources.

[cpoxon 0]

British Pathe have converted a few more films. I've added them to the BritishPathe directory on skydivingmovies.com

There are a couple about Col. Kittenger's altitude records (2760.03 and 2786.02) and one about BirdMan Gerard Masselin's fatal accident (3084.21)

EDIT: WARNING! Although not particularly graphic, 3084.21 contains images of a dead Gerard Masselin.

[CrazyDave 0]

nice link... like the vids!