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More Strafing (1945)

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Jun 252011
 
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(Color, Silent) GSAP strafing.

Courtesy: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 18 SFP 9261

US Army Air Force. Cameramen: Johnson. April 1945.

Aerial shots of GSAP strafing vehicle on road, factory area, buildings, town, trains, parked aircrafts (shots of flights taken by various pilots, named by cameraman on slates).

 

 

Wings For This Man (1945)

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Jun 252011
 
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Narrated by Ronald Reagan

Department of the Army

Army Air Forces Special Film Project Number 151

Wings for This Man AVA08663VNB1, 1945

Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military.

 

 

Takeoff (Взлет) 1969

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Jun 242011
 
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National Archives – Takeoff SST (Supersonic Transport Aircraft) – National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. – ARC 653130 / LI 263.2392

This film shows the Soviet aircraft TU-144 taking off and landing.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Soviet government published the concept of the Tu-144 in an article in the January 1962 issue of the magazine Technology of the Air Transport. The air ministry started development of the Tu-144 on 26 July 1963, ten days after the design was approved by the Council of Ministers. The project started two years later than the Concorde. The plan called for five flying prototypes to be built in four years. The first aircraft was to be ready in 1966.

The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO reporting name: “Charger’”) was a Soviet supersonic transport aircraft (SST). The Tu-144 remains one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service, the other being Concorde, from the Anglo-French consortium. The design, first publicly unveiled in January 1962, was constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev design bureau, headed by Alexei Tupolev. The Tu-144 was Tupolev’s only supersonic commercial airliner venture, as the company’s other large supersonic aircraft were designed and built to military specifications.

The Tu-144 was outwardly similar to Concorde, which was under development at the same time by Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation, and allegations were frequently made that Soviet espionage services had stolen Concorde technology, giving the Tu-144 the nickname “Konkordski” or “Concordski”. A prototype (OKB: izdeliye 044 — article 044) first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow, two months before the first flight of the Concorde. The Tu-144 first broke the sound barrier on 5 June 1969, and on 15 July 1969 it became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

 

 

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