BATTLES OVER AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 59, 9 March 1940, Page 14

BATTLES OVER AGAIN

FILMS FOR PILOTS

MOVIE RECORDS OF FIGHTS

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, March 7,

Films which were taken from Royal Air Force fighters while in combat with the enemy are now being used for the instruction of British pilots in fighting tactics. The King, when visiting, a fighter command station in Scotland recently, saw one of these films, recording the interception and shooting down of a German raider. It was taken from the attacking British aircraft during the fight. , ' Lined up with the fighter pilots eight guns there is a cine-camera, which operates automatically when the trigger-button sets the eight guns., in action. It is focused on the target and makes an exact record of the path of the bullets. When the pilot takes his finger off the trigger the guns cease firing and the camera stops taking pictures It resumes its work with each burst of fire

Seated comfortably in a darkened room, the fighter pilot will relive the battle and perhaps note a mistake which enabled the enemy to get away. In half a minute the "show" is over; then the film is run through again and again. Sometimes it is stopped at a crucial point to enable the pilot, to study in detail exactly what happened. .