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1952 - Aircraft, USA Experimental: Horton Wingless Aircraft Demonstrated. 0910Oct52

Reel Number: 250167-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1952,1950s

Country: USA

Location: California,Orange County Airport

TC Begins: 22:17:04

TC Ends: 22:27:59

Duration: 00:10:55

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1952 - Aircraft, USA Experimental: Horton Wingless Aircraft Demonstrated. 0910Oct52 Slate: 09Oct52 Camera Airman 1st Class Wiley. Horton Wingless; Orange Co. Airport. Plane N39C on tail, taxiing, POV from alongside & twin-engine wingless plane lifting off during takeoff. MCU Horton Wingless on end of ??. 22:18:25 Sketch of plane wingless plane w/ four motors alongside fighter jet 22:18:32 Slate: Roll 5 10Oct52 Camera: Wiley. Illustration of wingless plane w/ pusher propellors & glass front passenger area w/ windows lifted. Approximately same plane w/ windows closed; double rear tail / stabilizers. 22:18:50 Illustration showing Air Force markings and twin jet engines w/ rear exhaust & single vertical stabilizer. Other illustrations. 22:19:14 Illustrations on easels at airfield. 22:19:29 Wingless plane landing past camera, r. to l. 22:19:41 Control tower; light aircraft parked on airfield, CU sign: Orange County Airport, Publicly Owned, Entrance. LS light planes & commercial airliner landing; high angle pan over planes parked. 22:20:26 Slate: 09Oct52 Roll 2. Horton Wingless. Camera S/Sgt Pontiius. View from upper front of pilot & co-pilot in plane w/ cockpits opened. MCU. MLS pilot & co-pilot in open cockpit, door below opens & motors start. 22:21:23 Slate: Roll 1, 09Oct52 Camera: Wiley. MS from right rear of plane parked, rudder & tail moved, MCU w/ tail number showing. CUs. Wing tips folding back into plane; CU name on ?? 22:22:20 Plane taking off towards & past camera r. to l.; settles down for landing / taxiing w/ car alongside. Taxiing to stop. 22:23:18 Slate: Roll 2. Same. MS man sitting up in open cockpit, co-pilot gets up. Shots inside wing of plane as small wing tip is opened / closed. Int. cockpit w/ gages, pilots hands on controls, yoke moved in & out by pilot & co-pilot. Flaps raised. 22:24:13 Slate: Roll 3. Same. Font w/ pilot lowering escape hatch , motors started; plane beginning taxiing (view from car alongside); plane off ground 22:25:13 Slate: Roll 6 same except 10Oct52. William Horton pointing to sketches as three airmen look. Horton picks up box, opens & takes out model of plane, twists lever to open / extend wings; opens plexiglass windows fo passenger compartments. Retracts wings. Turns pusher propellors, raising & lowering them View of model w/ batteries turning rear propellors. Wing has N1362 H on it. 22:26:40 View across runway to air control tower, DC-3 taxiis r. to l. past; MCU of tower. 22:27:09 Slate: Roll 1 09Oct52 Camera Pontius. High angle / HA view down to parked Wingless plane w/ pilot & co-pilot in partially open cockpits; man walks around plane, gives scale to plane. 1950s Experimental Aircraft; Testing; Inventors; Inventions; Civilian Airplanes; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Read about Howard Hughes attempting to take over patents, etc. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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