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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221449-01
Color: Black and White and Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1970s,1910s
Country: France,Italy,USA
Location: griffith afb,New York,Rome
TC Begins: 05:01:01
TC Ends: 05:15:53
Duration: 00:14:52
Teasers: Advanced Technology; Lafayette Escadrille; Arctic Survival; Women’s Track Team 05:02:03 Title: Air Force Now (Pt. 1 of 2) Montage of sparks, fiber optics (?); AFN presenter thru large electrical equipment, High Power Laboratory at Rome Air Development Center, Griffith AFB, New York. Walking detected by surveillance equipment to identify trespassers; data analyzed on main-frame computers w/ dials, switches & seismic print-outs. F-111 fighter plane mounted on pedestal at angle & undergoing antenna placement testing - rotating; others mounted. INT processor room - banks of computers. Man demonstrates radar monitor which matches silhouettes of known aircraft to radar outlines. 05:04:59 Voice-recognition - gag w/ presenter asking “who’s the greatest of them all” - ‘ Not You Turkey!’ appears on sceen. ‘Teleport’ gag - presenter disappears & reappears in different room. 05:06:41 Staged WWI pilot walking away from biplane at sunset; CU photo of WWI pilots. Biplanes in flight. Lafayette Escadrille, US volunteers in French fighter squadron 1916-18. CUs photos. Col. Charles Dolan, last surviving member, re joining Royal Naval Air Corps & French Foreign Legion, & trying out for the squadron. Montage of WWI stock footage, feature film extracts Hell’s Angels? & photos of Lafayette Escadrille pilots: French & German fighter planes prepared on runway - INT pilot in cockpit - air combat scenes dogfighting - RAF fighters lined up on runway. Military Aviation; Memories; History; Science; Data Analysis; NOTE: Music must be cleared if used.