USAF Academy - Flying Tigers - Band of the Golden West

USAF Academy - Flying Tigers - Band of the Golden West Air Force Now title sequence 02:43:18 Title: The United States Military Academy. Montage: drummers, students marching, military band, parading. 02:43:52 Title: Airmanship. AV USAF Academy from glider. Col. Johnny Hall SOF re Airmanship program; cadet & instructor in flight simulator cockpit; in training plane w/ instructor; navigation training on board T-43 transport plane. Student & instructor at consol w/ radar mapping route. 02:45:19 Cadet into glider, hook up, SOF describing program, & take off, several gliders in flight over mountains & POV. Powered sailplanes. 02:47:09 Ground training for parachute jump; cadets practice landing in sand pit & hang suspended on harnesses. Cadets into plane & take off - out of plane & parachutes landing. 02:48:40 SOF of instructor walking past line of T-41 light aircraft. Briefing session in classroom - cadets in one-to-one examination w/ instructors. Cadet & instructor up in light plane. Cadets in uniform walking across main square of Academy. 02:50:47 Project Warrior WWII footage USAAF supply plane flying the Hump, over Himalaya mountains from India to China. US volunteer Flying Tigers, pilots briefing next to P-40 fighter w/ nose art. P-40s in flight & being repaired. Pilots decorated by Brig Gen Claire Chennault; command center activity. Flying Tigers scramble to planes, warning siren; take off, air combat scenes - Japanese plane crashes. Planes in flight. 02:53:47 CU Electronic soundboard, consul, guitars. USAF rock band - 15th Air Force ‘Band of the Golden West’ from March AFB California - performing in high schools on tour. SOF describing tours. Unloading equipment, band members to camera - “present a good image for the Air Force”. VS CUS band members playing, performing ‘Jump’ in USAF uniform; applause. Military Aviation Education; Recruiting; Air Force Propaganda; 1980s;