History of Naval Aviation (1943)

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 06:00:33 Aerial above Navy bombers patrol Atlantic. CU & int; navigator; radioman. Pilots & others, flight preparations. SOF re “fix on that sub.” Telegraph key. Plane banking over ocean. 06:01:46 Cadets march to classes. CU sign: United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N.C. Int. classroom, lecture re Battle of Midway. Washington DC Navy Department, ext. & int. cans of film on shelves,CU photographs of pioneer naval aviators. CU sign: Projection Room. 06:02:46 Cadets watch film, take notes of early airplanes. Title: One of Knabenshue’s Controlled Balloon Flights. Men move balloon out & launch w/ propellor, circling. A hydroplane towing glider over water. Curtiss plane landing. 06:03:46 Smithsonian Institution’s Aircraft Building sign. People walk beneath early plane, exhibits & models; photographs. 06:04:44 Sailors move WWI hydroplane out of hanger, push into water, armed, takes off on patrol. 06:05:23 Chart of type of navy planes. Flying boat out of hanger; many seaplanes on ramp. MCU Lt. J.H. Tower's; 1919 takeoff for transatlantic flight; NC-4 seaplanes landing off Plymouth, England. Headlines. 06:06:33 Cmdr. A.C. Read received by the Lord Mayor. Headline re Lt. John Rodgers launched, taking off (1925) & landing in the Hawaiian Islands. 06:07:37 Diagram of early catapults testing & takeoffs from improvised flight deck on a battleship. 06:08:25 Aircraft carrier tests & crash. Land tests of braking devices. 06:09:12 1922 landings w/ crashes by Godfrey Chevalier in A606, & others on carrier Langley as various braking techniques are tested; 06:11:19 Title. 1924 men w/ airplane models; windtunnel testing. Navy aerial gunnery target practice. 06:11:54 Mechanical school w/ training, teaching. SOF instructor. 06:12:27 Navy blimps flying launched. Rear Adm. W.A. Moffett, H.D. Wylie, & C.E. Rosenthal; a fighter plane hooking onto airship (airborne hangar), dropping from hook & diving over city. 06:13:42 Five fighter biplanes, Navy's first fighter squadron, Marine Corps-manned Curtiss "Helldivers," on ground, overhead & peeling off & dive bombing a ship during a test. Explosions. 06:14:51 Torpedo plane from Langley launching, practicing. 06:15:29 Navy Department ext., int w/ government VIPs looking at model of aircraft carrier. 06:15:52 Takeoffs & landings on Saratoga & Lexington after conversion to aircraft carriers in early 1930's. Various fighter planes, wildcats; & patrol bombers in the air scouting & submarine patrol. Aircraft carriers w/ planes warming up, taking off POV. In flight formation diving & in flight. The End. WW1; Pre-WW2; Firsts; Aviation History; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1943; NOTE: any continuous ten minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk