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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250159-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: United Kingdom,USA
Location: dayton,Ohio,Wright Field
TC Begins: 06:29:31
TC Ends: 06:40:24
Duration: 00:10:53
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1945, USAAF: Air Technical Service Command - Wright Field & Testing Intertitle: Headquarters Air Technical Service Command. CU Col. Ralph Nemo, Chief of Personel, sitting at desk speaking to camera, SOF. Describes its roll in purchasing etc. & need for veterans to return to work - 6,000 jobs in nearly every state of the union. Title: WF 60-88 (Revised April 1945) Titles: Growing Wings. 06:31:57 Aug09 CU Civilians pushing a Wright Brothers twin-prop biplane; starting & flying w/ passenger. 06:32:24 CU Sign on fence: Wright Field. CU Dayton bus entering main gate at Wright Field. Traffic, pedestrians on base. MS Shots of new very large building. MS Freight train entering older building. Civilians loading freight cars from dock; trucks at loading bays. 06:33:06 LS P-40s parked on muddy field. MS Cars in parking lot, large building behind. Men into new large concrete building. 06:33:32 LS high angle / HA various types planes on tarmac. Row of C-47s w/ ground crew working. MS mechanic working on P-38. B-17 landing; MCU man in tower talking thru microphone. MS B-17E Flying Fortress landing. 06:34:02 MS Wind tunnels. Int. CU Various shots in wind tunnel. MS from rear of man at test console.Diagram of wind flow over model of wing; aerial CU wing of plane in flight w/ tufts showing wind. Aerial of AT-6 doing aerial maneuvers. 06:34:48 Int. MSs Civilians balancing propellors. CU Testing prop. Variable pitch propellor operating. Aircraft engine & various shots of prop. tests. Mounted on exterior stand for endurance tests in weather. 06:36:13 Aerial MS B-26 No. 2 engine feathered & stopped in flight. 06:36:47 CU Landing gear test, dropping by crane & collapsing. Four-engine plane dropped in hanger on tricycle landing gear & bounces slightly. Dropped again & motor falls off wing. CU front wheel when dropped. 06:37:23 Aerial of ground seen from front of landing plane onto dirt alongside runway. CU Front wheel tire a it touches ground. MS B-26 taking off & landing gear retracting. CU wheel turning & raising. 06:38:05 Hydraulics demonstrated w/ CU Wing flaps on unidentified plane, CU tire, CU Bomb bay doors on A-36. Hydraulic lines in plane. CU man working test pump on hydraulic system. 06:38:50 CU sign: High Altitude Laboratory. MS B-24 in flight. Man seated at work station outside cold weather chamber. Enlisted men enters, door closed. Int EM playing cards in chamber, one wearing oxygen mask & other without. Pressure seen being reduced. CU adjusting oxygen valve. CU man passing out, head on table. CU hand opening oxygen valve. WW2; Aircraft Development; Testing; Military Research; NOTE: Good quality. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk