'How to fly the B-26' - a 1944 training film
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'How to fly the B-26' - a 1944 training film
Apparently the only B-26 Marauder we can see in Europe is in a French museum and the Fantasy of Flight aircraft doesn't seem to have flown for sometime so I thought I'd show this movie about this 'fast ship'.
You can watch it here:
How to fly the B-26 on Vimeo
How to fly the B-26
The Martin B-26 Marauder was a fast medium bomber in WW2. It had a reputation for being difficult to fly and received various names such as 'Widow Maker' because of the numerous accidents it had initially. Although they helped with performance, the short wings on the plane gave it a high landing speed and at one time is was apparently also regarded by some as being virtually impossible to fly on one engine.
This is a 'mini feature', made in 1944 by the Culver City based 'First Motion Picture Unit' of the US Army Air Corps, with two actors, Don Porter as Captain Dick and Craig Stevens as Lt Jim Anthony.
We go through every stage of pre-flighting, take-off and flight which it ends in an 'engine out' landing. Although obviously a flight instruction film aimed at pilots I wonder if perhaps they were trying to dispell the myths about the plane.
I've had to tweak the 'audio sync' quite a lot and wonder if movies like this went out with much loose dialogue sync back in the 40's.
I've got a few more 'public domain' movies like this and will be uploading them, along with my own aviation videos to my new website:
www.flyingfilm.co.uk
David T
You can watch it here:
How to fly the B-26 on Vimeo
How to fly the B-26
The Martin B-26 Marauder was a fast medium bomber in WW2. It had a reputation for being difficult to fly and received various names such as 'Widow Maker' because of the numerous accidents it had initially. Although they helped with performance, the short wings on the plane gave it a high landing speed and at one time is was apparently also regarded by some as being virtually impossible to fly on one engine.
This is a 'mini feature', made in 1944 by the Culver City based 'First Motion Picture Unit' of the US Army Air Corps, with two actors, Don Porter as Captain Dick and Craig Stevens as Lt Jim Anthony.
We go through every stage of pre-flighting, take-off and flight which it ends in an 'engine out' landing. Although obviously a flight instruction film aimed at pilots I wonder if perhaps they were trying to dispell the myths about the plane.
I've had to tweak the 'audio sync' quite a lot and wonder if movies like this went out with much loose dialogue sync back in the 40's.
I've got a few more 'public domain' movies like this and will be uploading them, along with my own aviation videos to my new website:
www.flyingfilm.co.uk
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Hmm. Avgas aircraft - and fags being lit up on the pan at the end of the sortie. Times have changed. Some things didn't, though - I see the usual mob turned out to watch the landing so that they were witnesses and therefore couldn't be on the board of enquiry.
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