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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1699-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1958
Country: USA
Location: Alabama,Fort Rucker
TC Begins: 10:19:56
TC Ends: 10:29:02
Duration: 00:09:06
R3 of 3 Large Army helicopter w/ motor exposed, mechanics working & others watching / inspecting. 10:20:08 Trainee walking aroiund small twin-engine jet, viewing engine. Armed helicopter; soldier loading shells in machine guns. Aerial over many planes on training field. Pilot looking at small helicopter. 10:21:18 Small helicopter w/ machine guns taking off past camera. 10:21:32 Forested battlefield from air. 10:21:51 Officers looking at map on wall, pointing, talking (MOS). Commander picks up telephone, reconnaissance plane takes off. Corporal missile launched. 10:22:46 Soldiers run to many helicopters on ground & board. Jeep backed into large front doors of helicopter. Reconnaissance helicopters low over camera; land on hilly field; fire rockets hovering low above land. MCUs. Explosions. Weapons ships firing, explosions. 10:24:34 Infantry unloading from arriving helicopters; CU w/ rifles. Large helicopters landing w/ jeeps, troops run forward & jeeps off. Plane dropping communication wire, troops forward, explosions, rockets firing, etc. Destroyed equipment of “enemy”. 10:26:25 Low overhead of parked Army Aviation planes on airstrip moving past Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw 10:26:45 Stuart Queen talking to camera, SOF 10:27:03 Test pilot on flying platform, other similar. Vertical take off plane moving wings & motors. Illustrations / drawings of future planes. 10:27:40 Queen talking to camera. SOF. The End credits. Army Aviation; Aerial Mobility; Training; 1950s; ca 1958; NOTE: Very good photography, quality & coverage.