WWII - 1943, USA Aviation: USAAF Training Film, Sikorsky Helicopter Demonstrated

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - WWII - 1943, USA Aviation: USAAF Training Film, Sikorsky Helicopter Demonstrated Main titles. 00:00:31 Sikorsky R-4 helicopter, w/ wheels & one w/ pontoons lifting off & turning & hovering, landing. 00:01:04 Igor Sikorsky in his home, walks to desk & speaks in MS to camera re Leonardo da Vinci; shows sketch of screw as method. Points to his own 1910 attempt for a helicopter. 00:02:18 View of light plane flying low over airfield runway; landing. Three helicopters hovering, rising & moving. Says helicopters have caught too much of people’s imagination given their stage of development. 00:03:12 Sikorsky continues talking to camera about German test flights ca 1937 in Germany. Says when helicopter is successful there will be an unlimited market & need for new policing rules; can be imagined being used in all sorts of ways including private use as was the automobile. 00:04:36 Shows models of various early models (over-exposed). Talks of his own work in 1937. 00:05:52 Sep39 flight of first Sikorsky flight in front of hanger at low level hovering & moving by pilot on open framework. Men watch in background. 00:07:21 VS-300 flying above runway w/ inflated pontoons, descends & turns to land on water. Taxiing forward & backward, turns in circles w/ tilting of rotor blades. “It will be wonderful when some of us can own helicopters...” 00:09:10 VS-300 takes off backwards, turns & flies forward; MCU past & landing in rocky inslet w/ boats around & lands on pool; hovers slightly above. Takes off & then lands in front of woman holding large iron ring & helicopter spears with nose probe. 00:11:10 Pilot into helicopter parked among cars / automobiles, starts up & takes off; circles & pan follows around as it returns to land among cars where it had been. Takes off again. 00:12:31 Helicopter arriving & hovers over top of large crates. Narrator talks about the use of helicopter in war effort. Pilot lands on rooftop; lifts off again. 00:14:14 High angle / HA over Housatonic River valley w/ farmland & Sikorsky two-seat Army helicopter on test flight. Flies over large bridge, then under bridge & over it again. MCU hovering over marsh grass. 00:15:44 Helicopter in flight; CU of Les Morris in cockpit; View from ground as its engine is shut off & glides down w/o power. Sikorsky & woman up to helicopter. 00:16:34 Type T-2 tanker, SS Bunker Hill, in distance; 06May43 & USAAF Colonel H. Franklin Gregory lands helicopter onboard deck small landing platform, then takes off again for the first time ever on a ship at sea. Many military & civilians watching on shipboard. 00:18:33 MS taking off from ship as men watch. Three helicopters toward camera in formation w/ original VS-300 & two production models. Hover & take off. 00:19:47 Man walks out of grocery store to parking lot & loads food into basket on front of helicopter; takes off from among cars. Two children in yard w/ swing, kids run to house, wife hanging up laundry on clothesline & waves to husband arriving to land in his suburban backyard among trees & wife walks out & takes groceries from basket; they argue over taking shoes back to be re-soled. Takes off past bird’s nest. 00:22:56 MS SOF Sikorsky to camera “much to be done before ready for general use.” Views in flight. WW2; Rotorcraft Test Pilot; Testing; Military Aircraft; NOTE: Any continuous 12 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk