U.S. Navy training film. Techniques used by a destroyer and its crew in rescuing downed pilot. A helicopter hovers over the pilot in the sea. It lifts the pilot and the parachute attached to the pilot also lifts along with the pilot. The pilot held firmly by the sailors on the destroyer. A sailor holds a green flag on the destroyer. The parachute separates from the pilot. Sailors gather near the pilot. They take him on a stretcher. Summarizing the rescue operations with the help of small boats, helicopter, swimmers and the destroyer.
Crash of a Grumman F4F-3 aircraft from U.S. Navy Squadron VF-42, on the carrier, USS Wasp, early in 1941. In a slow motion sequence, a U.S. Navy F4F-3, with F-42-17 painted on its side (BuNo 2537) is seen rounded out too high for landing, above all arresting cables, and drifting into the carrier's island, where it impacts, losing its right wing, and flipping over to crash inverted on the flight deck. Sailors stand in the background. After the aircraft settles, a sailor runs across the deck to render aid. (Note: Navy Squadrons VF-42 and VF-71, assigned to the USS Wasp, received their F4F-3 Wildcats in January and February of 1941 under Bureau of Aeronautics contract C-68219, order number 48-020. These aircraft were painted overall aluminum with VF-42 having willow green tails and VF-71 having black tails. Later in 1941 the aircraft were repainted overall light gray.)
USS Wasp (CV-7) flight operations,prior to World War II. Slow motion sequence, from two different perspectives, of a Grumman F3F-2 Marine Corps aircraft landing on the flight deck. The airplane rounds out high, clips two restraining cables, and stalls, dropping nose first to the deck and falling on right wings, then balancing vertically on its nose, before falling back onto its wheels.
A U.S. F4F-3 aircraft crash lands on deck of the USS Wasp (CV-7) during World War 2. Sequence in slow motion begins with hard contact on deck that collapses landing gear and bends propeller blades. The pilot clearly visible in cockpit, with canopy open. The aircraft slides forward and across the deck where it stops at the very edge. Deck crewmen jump up and head toward the airplane.
Aboard U.S. Navy CV-7, USS Wasp. SB2U aircraft lands on the flight deck. Pilot and copilots in open cockpits. It lands on the flight deck with its wheels up and skids across the deck.
USS Wasp flight operations. F4F aircraft lands on the air carrier. It crashes into the barrier. Superstructure in the background.
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