Reel Number: 220480-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945
Country: USA
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TC Begins: 03:04:15
TC Ends: 03:05:45
Duration: 00:01:30
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Post-WWII - 1945, USA: USAAF & Army Secret Inventions Revealed Intertitle: Ingenious Aviation Devices Shown In U.S. Army Tests - Radio Control Of Planes. 03:04:25 USAAF airmen pick up tails of miniature radio-guided planes, mount on launch platform. Airman demonstrates joy-stick type control to move rudder. CU Remote control. Motor started & plane catapulted; plane & air, man w/ controls watching it maneuver. Plane lands w/ parachute. Airmen retrieve. 03:05:08 Intertitle: New Cable Airfield. 03:05:11 Piper Cub airplane hooks onto cable & slides along cable for landing; hangs from cable. Plane takes off from cable, circles & lands onto cable in slow motion. Post-WW2; Inventions; Army Air Force; Training; Drone Aircraft; Military Secrets; 1940s;