Cadets on gunnery training run at the Naval Aviation Academy In Pensacola, Florida. A student pilot and a student gunner board a plane to go aloft for the training. Buildings in the background. Plane in flight. Pilots in the cockpit.
U.S. Navy P2Y-1 Ranger amphibian plane being taxied on a ramp at Pensacola Naval Air Station. It takes off with one crewman standing in open cockpit, behind the wing. The Ranger flies overhead and drops a bomb on a target marked in the water. A crewman standing in an open seaplane cockpit, attempts to make celestial observations. A PBY Catalina is launched and takes off. Formations of Catalinas in flight. A Naval Aircraft factory N3N torpedo seaplane is seen flying low over the water. View inside cockpit of crew member pulling lever to release the torpedo.t.
Cadets of U.S. Navy Aviation Academy get acquainted with catapult takeoffs and practice mock carrier landings. View from aircraft making a carrier landing. Backseat views of aircraft performing aerobatics, including slow roll, Immelman, and double snap roll. Graduation day and cadets receive their Navy Wings of Gold.
Aviation cadets of U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps undergo aviation training in the United States before wartime deployment during World War 1. Cadets march in uniforms. They examine a biplane and work on it. They observe an airplane engine running and learn about it. They sit perched over a painted mock aerial landscape and take notes or a test noting features of the landscape.
U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps cadets undergo aviation training in United States. Buildings in the background. They stand near tables and make gun barrels. They make dummy bombs from plaster of Paris. They also make shells and other World War 1 era armaments.
U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps Cadets seated at desks look at airplanes on projector in United States and learn about dogfight scenarios. They write down their observations in their notebooks. They fire rifles and machine guns at a range, the latter as practice for aerial machine gun use. Instructors guide them. They fire at target boards painted with target World War 1 enemy aircraft.
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