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Jet Story, The (1951) Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 250035-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951,1950s

Country: USA

Location: Lockland,Ohio

TC Begins: 21:12:06

TC Ends: 21:26:47

Duration: 00:14:41

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... MS conference table, officials of the General Electric Company asked to make the first Turbo Jet engine. CU views of factory scenes of assembly of engine. Machinists & machining parts; testing. 21:14:56 CU sign: FORT KNOX. Technician examining engine. 21:15:16 CU hand flipping switch to start test of engine; views of the engine test. 21:15:37 LS & MS Bell Aircraft Corporation. Planning section. CU blue print. Technicians at work. SOF “I hope it flies.” 21:16:04 Street scenes of American town. CU the exhaust as jet engine fires. CU the YP-59A taxiing & 01Oct42 takeoff on first flight. 21:16:57 CU views of factory workers, technicians work on larger jet engines. 21:17:19 Initial flight of F-80, Jun44 & many F-80's in flight. Conference room & planes. 21:17:55 CU engineer & drawing, demonstrating centrifugal force in engine. Animation of operation of jet engine. MCU F-84 taxiing; Douglas D-558-1 taxiing & takeoff on 29Aug47 (set speed record of 640 mph). 21:18:35 Northrop XB-35 flying wing. CU nose section of F-84. MS XFD-1 Navy Phantom. & taking off & landing on aircraft carrier. 21:19:03 INT classroom at GE manufacturing plant; instructors. 21:19:28 Oddities: Venetian Blind plane taxiing in front of hangar, collapsing; the Ornithopter of wings & tail attached to inventor William E. Blaine who runs, jumps off ledge & crashes. Sky car, which is automobile body w/ post in center & a revolving solid disc above, does not leave ground (Inventor was W.P. Kendree.) 21:19:50 CU Rocket Glider, a bicycle w/ smoking rockets attached to rear of seat along road; man jumps off & runs out of scene, bicycle explodes. 21:20:04 CU book titled NEWTON w/ animation showing action & equal & opposite reaction" w/ lawn sprinkler; jet aircraft animation explaining operation. Takeoff of F84 & in flight. INT GE factory manufacturing jet engines. Animation of USA map w/ factories which manufacture the jet engine. 21:21:58 Machine shops & INT Lockland, Ohio plant. CUs engineers, etc. Manufacturing. Montage: XF-91 take off; an F-86D; B-51 flying to right; stationary F-86; F-86 in flight, landing gear down & landing. B-45 in flight, banks to right. B-36 take off to left. F-86 taxiing, bomb load under fuselage; CU INT cockpit, as hand operates stick; CU installing bombs onto rack; ake off of F-86. Animation of jet engine firing & fade-in of two other jet engines. MS sign, GENERAL ELECTRIC LOCKLAND PLANT. 21:24:05 Stage: 3 men in conference, conference headed by Dr. Moss. MS the Collier Trophy received by Moss in 1945. INT factory scene & INT of aircraft, stewardess bringing tray to passenger. Convair factory, scenes of laboratory work & technicians conducting research. Views of factory scenes. 21:25:52 Montage of take-offs of XF-102; B-45; B-47; X-123A & others. The End. Military Aviation Development; Promotional Film; 1950s; Cold War; NOTE: Any continuous 11 minutes of entire film, 21:05:36 - 21:26:47, sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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