1953 - USAF Air Force Digest: F-86 vs MIGs; C-119 & Heavy Equipment; B-36; Helicopter History

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk USAF Aircraft: F-86 Saberjets vs MIGs; C-119 & Heavy Equipment; B-36; Helicopter History Titles. 09:04:53 High angle / HA F-86 Saberjets in sandbagged revetments w/ line taxiing for takeoff, MCUs, taking off w/ exhaust pollution over camera. Ground crews watch from sandbags. 09:06:27 Aerial of four F-86 fighters in formation from various angles. 09:06:35 One after MIG, eventual explosion & disintegration. 4 planes wing over to left away from camera plane & more gun camera / GSAP footage of hitting & destroying MIGs. Saberjets landing; ground crews watching. 09:08:24 Art intertitle: Heaviest Mass Equipment Drop. 09:08:30 View down runway between two long lines of aircraft tails; front of line of planes. Heavy equipment of earthmoving equipment on truck trailers brought to load onto planes. Loading. 09:09:09 Airmen push on plane to level w/ trailer; push equipment load inside on conveyor wheels. MCU. 09:09:26 Ground shot of twin-tail C-119s in flight dropping heavy equipment w/ multiple parachutes attached from 1500 ft, descending & landing. CUs of open parachutes, tilt down lines to equipment landing & in slow motion parachutes breaking away. 09:11:44 Wrecked bulldozers; some overturned equipment. MCUs of undamaged equipment. 09:12:05 Art intertitle: Visiting B-36 Gets Rapid Maintenance. 09:12:11 CU sign: Welcome To Brize Norton AFB ..the home of the best airmen & soldiers in the world! 09:12:14 B-36 landing past l. to r. w/ feathered propellor; taxiing from r. to l. 09:12:48 Changing engines & lifted from wing. Mechanics working on tail. New engine hoisted into place, MCUs. Propellors re-attached. 09:13:38 Fuel truck backed up & hose carried to top & B-36 refueling. View from on wing of men w/ hoses 09:14:11 Engines started, CU wheels moving & taxiing & taking off away from camera as ground crew watches. 09:14:55 Art intertitle: Did You Know...? Men watching helicopter propellors rotating on very early bouncing helicopter, pilot jumps off as it tips over. NOTE: may be 1908 or earlier attempt by Emile Berliner & J. Newton Williams. 09:15:18 1920, Etienne Oehmichen helicopter tested, Belfort, France. Large balloon w/ twin propellors beneath lifts as men watch; back to the ground before it twists & turns w/ people on the ground trying to stabilize. 09:15:52 Spain/France ca May, 1921 Piscara helicopter (probably no. 2) w/ 20 blades; men watch as it hops, twists & turns in tests for Service Technique de I’Aeronautique in hanger. 09:16:10 1921 De Bothezat helicopter in front of hanger. Demonstrated in morning fog ca 1922 for US Army, McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio w/ four large propellors on steel framework. 09:16:39 1941 Sikorsky / Sikorski demonstrating Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 for large group of spectators. 09:16:57 Several military helicopters including XR-4 ca 1942. 09:17:12 ca 1952 Large military Hughes XH-17 jet cargo helicopter towed on ground; hovering & moving forward. GOOD. 09:17:58 The End. Experimental Aviation; Oddities; Gags; 1920s; 1950s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk