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Video showing POW-012 clip from Charlie Powell's film.   This final clip is of Vampire gun camera cine film showing air to air quarter attacks on another Vampire.   It was from Charlie's Operational Conversion Course at Pembrey and the clips are from late June to early July 1953 when he was on course No. 5E at 233 OCU.   Some shots are taken on the ground for calibrating the gunsight.   In some shots a white dot is shown on the screen and its position in relation to the cross on the ground aiming board seems to be captured so that the film can be assessed for ranging and tracking.   The PAI would measure ranges by measuring the wing span of the Vampire in the film.

There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 5 mins 17 secs.

(Thanks to Charlie Powell for original film.)
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