WWII - Color, 1943, Aviation, Lockheed Corporate Film: P-38 Flight Characteristics

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1943, USAAF: P-38 Training Film Main titles. 08:37:23 Aerials of P-38 formation, MCUs w/ narration giving flight characteristics. 08:38:05 Animation describing pilot bailing out methods: turning plane on back & dropping out; or out left side or sliding off wing. Parachute descent seen from below 08:38:52 Close view from behind of P-38 diving over coastline. CU machine guns firing; flying low parallel to sandy beach & turning sharply inland. 08:39:23 MLS aerial of P-38 over desert mountains; flying alongside biplane trainer at 90 mph, accelerating away. LS silhouetted against blue sky doing roll . 08:40:00 MCU starting engines on tarmac; interior of cockpit controls. Take off; demonstrating landing gear & P-38s in flight. CU Pilots Charles Charlie Brannon, Tom Kennedy, Jim Mather, Avery Black & Chief Engineering Test Pilot Milo Burcham. Burcham SOF explaining what will be shown. MCU Into cockpit, closing windows. 08:42:03 Animation showing airflow w/ windows closed vs open causing turbulance. MCU front of plane w/ external fuel tanks, int. w/ drop tank switch. Taxiing past DC-3, CU hands on controls w/ description & CUs of dials, take off run, wheels up. 08:45:03 Ext. Tower w/ men (brief) LS of airport buildings & plane past. CU airspeed, flaps retracted, diagram, plane in air & climbing; level flight. Stalls explained. POVs from aircraft, alongside P-38. Diving. 08:48:33 MCU landing light lowered & retracted. CU controls, dials, wheels lowered, flaps, pumping brakes. View of wheels retracted. Hand pumping, panel display of wheels lowering, ext. view. Landing. 08:52:23 Animation P-38 in steep dive for nose-wheel landing & plane crashing morphing into anamorphic character. Cel animation of pilot carrying / balancing stack of manuals to plane; reading in cockpit & scratching head. Animated dials going wild, taunting him. VERY GOOD. 08:53:54 CU cockpit w/ two seats for training flights. SOF trainee pilot questioning Milo Burcham. CUs. 08:56:13 P-38 taxiing, takeoff check, takeoff; gages during emergency, CU hands, buttons. Single engine flight demonstrated, view of feathered engine / stopped propellor, valves controlled, pedal controls, etc. Plane in flight on one engine, various views. 08:59:10 CU trainee pilot & Burcham in flight. More dials, hands, wheels & flaps lowered w/ single engine running. View over ground. CU pilots. POV airstrip landing. 09:05:42 Burcham & trainee raise canopy & out of cockpit. SOF talking. Down to tarmac & look at diagram of landing pattern. P-38 takes off & one engine quits. 09:06:59 Ext of tower talking to pilot Tony LaVier (MCU in cockpit). Takes off & cuts one engine, drops eternal tanks. Returns. CUs trainee pilot solo flight w/ take-off. 09:08:38 Views in air w/ single engine flying instructions from airport tower. CU changing controls. SOF. 09:10:07 MS Lowering landing gear, flaps. Summary shots in flight. 09:11:31 The End, titles. WW2; Corporate Training Film; USAAF Military Training; NOTE: Any continuous 17 minutes sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk