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Tracker
197411 min 53 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Kent Nason
Production: Rex Tasker
Script: Barry Cowling
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Defence.
A view from the cockpit of a VS880 Tracker aircraft patrolling Atlantic coastal waters and the eastern Arctic from its base in Shearwater, Nova Scotia. The film is a demonstration of the kind of peacetime missions served by the air arm of the Canadian Armed Forces in protecting territorial waters against illegal incursion and pollution, and in safe-guarding national sovereignty.
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Subject categories
- National Security and Defence > Aircraft and Air OperationsPeacekeeping
- Transportation > Military Aircraft and Airfields
Credits
- director
- Kent Nason
- executive producer
- Rex Tasker
- commentary
- Barry Cowling
- camera
- Wilf Spellmeier
- sound
- Stanley Coe
- editing
- Les Halman
- sound editing
- Les Halman