COAST GUARD AIR RESCUE -1975
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Education
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) COAST GUARD HELICOPTER WITH PONTOONS FOR SEA LANDING, LANDS ALONG SHORE. MEDICAL, RESCUE WORKERS ESCORT YOUNG BLACK CHILDREN, WEARING LIFE BELTS FROM HELICOPTER TO WAITING AMBULANCE, AFTER SEA RESCUE. 01:06:53 PAN OF LARGE LETTERS, "LIVES SAVED 67". LARGE SCOREBOARD AT COAST GUARD AIR STATION, MIAMI LISTS, "NUMBER SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS 403," "NUMBER OF LIVES SAVED 67" "PERSONS ASSISTED 921." 01:07:02 RESCUE PLANES AND HELICOPTERS LINED UP AT COAST GUARD AIRFIELD. SIGN, "BUSIEST AIR-SEA RESCUE UNIT IN THE WORLD." 01:07:19 LARGE COAST GUARD HELICOPTER IN FLIGHT. COAST GUARDS-MAN WITH HELMET, GOGGLES LOOKS OUT OPEN SIDE DOOR AT MIAMI CITYSCAPE BELOW. HELICOPTER FLIES OVER OPEN SEA, MIAMI COAST IN BG. AERIAL SAIL BOAT BELOW AS SEEN FROM HELICOPTER 01:07:49 HELICOPTER FLIES LOWER OVER WATER, IN RESCUE MISSION EXERCISE. "VICTIM FLOATING IN WATER, WITH LIFE JACKET ON, WAVES TO CRAFT. 01:07:58 HELICOPTER SLOWLY LANDS IN SEA, RESCUE WORKER OPENS HATCH DOOR, DIRECTS PILOT TO MAN IN WATER, OVER INTERCOM. STAYS IN VOICE CONTACT UNTIL HE PULLS MAN ABOARD, SECURES DOOR WHEN FINISHED. TELLING HIM OF EVERY STEP IN RESCUE. 01:08:42 PILOT CLIMBS TO TOP OF HELICOPTER, CHECKS ROTORS, ENGINE, REST OF CRAFT. EACH SHIP IS INSPECTED EVERY TEN HOURS OF FLIGHT, TOTALLY OVERHAULED EVERY 100 HOURS. 01:09:20 GUARDSMAN SITS AT STATION, GETS EMERGENCY CALL ON RADIO, PLANE OVERDUE, PRESUMED DOWN. GUARDSMAN PLOTS LOCATION ON MAP. PILOTS, CREW RUN OUT TO RESCUE SEAPLANE, CLIMB ABOARD. HELICOPTER CREW CLIMB INTO HELICOPTER. LARGE PLANE REVS UP ENGINES. HELICOPTER REVS UP ROTORS. 01:10:35 GROUND CREWMAN REMOVES WHEEL CHOCKS FROM PLANE, RUNS OUT TO GUIDE ONTO RUNWAY. HELICOPTER TAXIS ON RUNWAY. BOTH TAKE TO THE SKY, FLY OUT TOP SEA IN SEARCH OF PLANE.
