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WWII - 1943 - USAAF Training Film: Operation of C-1 Autopilot, Pt. 2 - Setting Up For Bombing

Reel Number: 250152-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1943,1940s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 16:00:06

TC Ends: 16:23:30

Duration: 00:23:24

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1943 - USAAF Training Film Title: This Film Is Restricted note: very good graphics! Titles. 16:00:40 Disney cel animation, stylized early pilots flying biplane over countryside ca WW1 / WWI, drops bomb into duck pond w/ Germans around. 16:01:44 CU Norden bombsight sight & bombardier viewing thru no. 1845. CU PDI / pilot direction indicator indicator, & pilot adjusting steering. Chart of plane nose w/ pilot & bombardier linked by PDI. Gag animation. 16:02:42 CU automatic controller & adjusting for bombsight setting. Interaction of bombardier & pilots. 16:03:48 Title: The Bombing Set-Up. MS B-17 above clouds; int. bombardier w/ controls, CU bombs moving in bombrack; pilot in oxygen mask throws switches, CU air speed indicator, altitude, hands on controls setting C-1 autopilot / automatic pilot. CU hands adjusting bombsight etc. Gages, adjusting centering settings. 16:06:33 Sensitivity Ratio adjustments adjusted. Turn compensation; bank trimmer, directional & vertical stabilzation CUs indicator dials. 16:09:28 Title: P.D.I. Recovery. CU dial indicator & needle; hand adjusting autopilot attached to Norden bombsight. Animated drawing of plane turning w/ PDI adjustment onto bomb run & further corrections. 16:12:18 Title: Pre-Setting The Sight. CU Norden bombsight; B-17 in flight; bombardier over sight & adjusting, CUs. operation of autopilot; gyroscope inside Norden; cut-aways showing movement on axis & bomb direction to target. 16:15:26 Looking down thru no. 1845 & CUs adjusting. ?? in viewfinder target. Ground target. CU adjusting settings w/ arrows. CU stopwatch set & running. 16:18:24 Title: The Evasive Action. B-17, bombardier in nose & much flak ahead; plane into clouds; CU adjusting settings. 16:19:26 Diagram of plane, artillery firing for hit, adjusting flight path & missing explosions. MS behind B-17 pilots, CU hands on controls. Diagram of plane evading artillery. CUs of dials. Bombardier sighting; target. 16:22:45 Bombs released & falling away, explosions on target. 16:23:06 B-17s over English Channel Coastline; LS of formation of bombers. The End. WW2; NOTE: Sold entire or part at per reel rate. Footage Farm does NOT have sound track. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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