《英国皇家空军纪录片合集》(The Royal Air Force Collection)[DVDRip]
中文名: 英国皇家空军纪录片合集
英文名: The Royal Air Force Collection
资源格式: DVDRip
发行时间: 2008年
制作发行: supang原创
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
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感谢supang
英国皇家空军（Royal Air Force，RAF）为英国军队的空军分支。皇家空军创始於1918年4月1日，自此之后於英国军事史扮演重要角色，而於第二次世界大战及伊拉克战争等衝突扮演要角。英国空军有1000架以上飞行器，及45710位常备兵员（2007年统计）。
标誌与旗帜
依循其他大英帝国军种的传统，皇家空军使用图徽代表他们的荣誉和行动。
皇家空军旗在所有基地白天都要升起。设计者是乔治五世於1921年设计，后来被许多海军反对，皇家海军地位是很高的——可以否决任何船上或陆上的旗帜。
所以一次大战早期的空军是使用英国国旗（米字旗形图案），但是在空中很容易和德国空军的铁十字标誌搞混。因此1914十月开始採用法国原创的同心圆样式，从中心向外依次为红白蓝三色。一年后改变了圆环的相对尺寸，后来二战时又加入了黄色圈。二战期间，在远东服役的飞机将徽标上的白色圈去除，以防止与日本的飞机混淆。从20世纪70年代开始，需要伪装的飞行器开始使用低可视度的圆徽，在深色伪装上採用红色和蓝色，而在浅色伪装色上採用稀释的粉红色和浅蓝色。大部分不需要伪装的训练和运输航空器仍然保持了传统的红-白-蓝三色圆徽。
皇家空军的箴言是拉丁语「Per Ardua ad Astra」，被译为「逆境中的明星」（Through Adversity to the Stars[1][2]）。这条箴言是由一位名叫J. S. Yule的尉官应一位皇家飞行队（RFC）的指挥官，弗雷德里克·赛克斯上校的要求下建议的。
自2006年以来，英国皇家空军已经通过了一项新的官方标誌(显示於这篇文章的上方)。在标识上使用的所有信件和宣传材料，旨在提供服务的一个单一的，普遍公认的品牌标识。（转自维基百科）
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The RAF Story: The 1930s - A Newsreel History
This DVD affords a very detailed look at the Royal Air Force through the eyes of newsreel cameramen throughout the Thirties - a time of dramatic technological change in aircraft design. Rare footage from British Movietone News, Gaumont British News and the Pathe Gazette whisks us into the skies over the British Empire and beyond. The early Thirties saw the Schneider Trophy won outright by the RAF, and the Air Force also broke many long-distance records all over the globe. The era also saw the retirement of Lord Trenchard, the 'Father of the Royal Air Force', the Coronation of King George VI and the long build-up to the Second World War.
A rich variety of aircraft in the front line included the Hawker Audax, the Hawker Hart, the Hawker Fury, the Gloster Gauntlet, the Bristol Bulldog, the Short Singapore III, the Boulton Paul Overstrand, the Vickers Wellesley and the Gloster Gladiator. We also see the birth of the Hawker Hurricane and early marks of the Supermarine Spitfire, the Westland Lysander, the Fairey Battle, the Bristol Blenheim, the Handley Page Hampden, the Vickers Wellington, the Avro Anson, the North American Harvard, the Lockheed Hudson, the Boulton Paul Defiant and many more.
The 1930s saw early 'mock battles' in preparation for the air defence of London, and many crashes!
There are many visits by royalty and dignitaries to the RAF College Cranwell, which boasted its own pack of Beagles for fox-hunts in the 1930s! We also see the frantic recruiting methods used to attract more than 2,000 pilots as war approached. Our round-up of this amazing decade is completed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war on September 3rd 1939, the BEF on the Western Front in France and the RAF's first real aerial battles.
Time: 91 mins approx
Subtitles: None
Sound: Mono / English
Picture: 1:33:1 / Black and White
Classification: Exempt
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Coastal Command 1936-1969 - A Service Overview
The Definitive History of Coastal Command
From its inception in 1936 through the Second World War, the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War to its demise in 1969, Coastal Command - A Service Overview is the definitive film history of the 'Cinderella Service' as told through the eyes of four RAF heroes. One of these men joined up in 1937 and had a massive crash in his vast Sunderland aircraft, which was ripped apart, leaving him as one of the first men to be rehabilitated at the RAF medical facility at East Grinstead.
Using archive news reviews and official RAF film records of the period, Coastal Command - A Service Overview surveys the seaplanes and flying boats, the missions and the men and women that protected Britain's sea lanes and shores from the Nazi onslaught and averted possible starvation for the British. In a later account about the boredom of long sorties in the Shackleton, a pilot explained how he coped: 'I spend one hour flying, one hour sleeping and one hour contemplating sexual matters!'
Aircraft featured include the Sunderland, B-17, Wellington, Blenheim, Mosquito, Anson, Catalina, Hudson, the very rare Lockheed Neptune and the Shackleton. This highly personal view of Coastal Command is directed by Bryan Wolfe, who was Capital Radio's original 'Flying Eye' and the son of Battle of Britain pilot Winco 'Ted' Wolfe, CO of 141 Squadron.
Classification: Exempt
Picture: 1:33:1 / Colour / Black and white
Subtitles: None
Time: 93 mins approx
Sound: Stereo / English
