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Video showing M18-10 clip from Brian Iles's film of his return flight from RAF Jever to Bulawayo, Africa in his Miles M-18 light aircraft beginning on Tuesday 20th July 1954 and starting their return on Monday 16th August 1954.   The clip may have been assembled in the wrong order as it finishes with a landing at Tabora, yet the previous clip finished at Kisumu.   I have placed it in what I hope is the right order but if anyone has local knowledge I would be delighted to put them in the correct order.   It starts with shots of a large river and a very distinctive bridge.   Then there are shots of Brian in the cockpit and then an early morning start.   The only early start before Tabora was at Lusaka when they were airborne at 04:25 hours on the way to Ndola.   There are shots of the prop being turned over by hand and an early take-off.   The airfield looks rather large from the air so it may have been Lusaka.   There are shots of Sandy in the cockpit and scenes of roads, rivers and wild life.   Then there are scenes of refuelling at, what looks like, a fairly remote location which appears to have a thatched roof airport building.   This could be Ndola or Abercorn, both in Northern Rhodesia.   There is a shot of a cat on the tailplane, then Sandy applying lip gel, presumably as sun and slipstream protection.   Then they are airborne again with shots over some fairly hilly terrain.   An airborne shot of an airfield appears and there is a picture from the air of the name Tabora where they landed on 18Aug54 at 14:30 hours.   The clip finishes with ground activity at presumably Tabora, in Tanzania showing the airport buildings.

There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 2 mins 59 secs.

(Thanks to Toby Iles for original film.)
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