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New Advances By The U.S. Army Air Corps R1/2 250149-11 | Footage Farm

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[Pre-WWII - 1938, USAAF:  New Advances By The U.S. Army Air Corps, 1937 - 1938]  R1 of 2
Titles.
11:19:40  Title over picture, airmen putting on flying suits & boots for winter maneuvers:  Selfridge Field, Michigan.  Heavy leather coats.  A-11 Consolidated pursuit planes taxiing & taking off;  twin-engine bombers take off & in flight.
11:20:25  Pan airfield w/ title:  March Field, Calif. A-17A planes on flight line.  Pacific GHQ w/ fly over.  Aerials of formation in flight, A-17A's lined up on flight line.  Several AV's of A-17A's in flight.
11:21:12  Title:  Newport `News, Virginia.   US AAF and Army Ground Forces trucks cross over long James River bridge.  Aerial of low flyby to left of three A-l7As laying smoke screen as trucks cross on bridge.  CU of smoke screen.  CU of A-17As flying over bridge.  
11:21:56  Seattle, Washington  Boeing B-17A taking off; aerial over mountains & past Mt. Rainier.  MS & CUs.Eight B-l7A's in flight. 
11:22:54  CU RV of pilot in cockpit of B-l7A; CU B-17A gunner at 50 caliber machine guns. 
11:23:01  AV's of B-10s in formations over March Field, California, above clouds.
11:23:51  AV's of A-11s practicing gunnery target practice & in formation over Virginia Beach, Virginia..  MS of ground target for aerial gunnery.  CU of machine guns on nose of A-11 firing at target.  MS ground target bursting into flame.  AV's of A-11's flying to right & left strafing target and the target bursting into flames.
11:24:46  Pilot training at AFB near Manila, Philippine Islands.  Pilots lined up on airfield in front of Stearman PT-13 biplane trainers (Philippine Army), taking off, one doing loop.  
11:25:33   AV's of US AAC B-10's in flight at Hamilton Field, California.  
11:26:29  Bell XFM-1, Barracuda, w/ twin pusher propellers, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.  CUs test pilots.Starting aircraft on ramp, taking off & in flight.
11:27:31  US Army dirigible on field; in hangar at Sunnyvale, California being dismantled & helium pumped into storage.  
11:28:20  Wright Field & C-35 w/ superchargers; pilots & scientists pose before testing.  Taxiing, taking off and in flight at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Pre-WW2 Army Air Force Training; Aviation Design; Military Aircraft;
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