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Title: QEII MODEL TESTS AT NRL

Reference number: 6314

Date: 1969, July

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.49 mins

Description: Close ups of the Queen Elizabeth II stabilising fin undergoing fourteen different tests. [see also ref. 6305]

Shotlist: [no title] Run 1. 11th July '69. Fin housed as fitted. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (0.25) Run 2. 14th July '69. Fin ext. 35º as fitted. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (0.57) Run 3. 14th July '69. Fin ext. 90º as fitted. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (1.28) Run 4. 14th July '69. Fin housed crux box hull plating removed. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (1.57) Run 5. 14th July '69. Fin housed crux box hull plating removed. Spoiler plate on inboard face. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (2.21) Run 6. 15th July '69. Fin housed. Larger spoiler plate. Deflector on aft end crux box. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (2.53) Run 7. 15th July '69. Fin 90º Larger spoiler plate. Deflector on aft end crux box. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (3.21) Run 8 15th July '69. Fin housed as Run 7. 'Empty' spaces of crux box filled with plasticine. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (3.52) Run 9 16th July '69. Fin 90º as Run 8. V= 18ft/sec. gvs same (4.24) Run 10 16th July '69. Fin housed as Run 8 with deflector plate. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (4.54) Run 11 16th July '69. Fin 90º ext. as Run 8 with deflector plate. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (5.25) Run 12 16th July '69. Fin housed as Run 1000. Semi - Aerofoil fitted aft of box. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (5.53) Run 13 17th July '69. Fin housed as Run 12 aft corners crux box faired. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (6.20) Run 14 17th July '69. Fin 90º as Run 12 aft corners crux box faired. V=18ft/sec. gvs same (6.49)