Glider Snatching (1949)

RAF airbase at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.



L/S RAF (Royal Air Force) personnel adjusting tie-rope to glider. Ground to air, Dakota flying overhead. M/S Verey light signal fired for aircraft. Ground to air, Dakota diving towards snatching set- up, glider is jerked from stationary position, glider is towed into the air. Air to air, glider being towed, the cable is broken, and glider sails off. Shot from inside glider, as it is being snatched by aircraft.
FILM ID:1263.3

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