Naval commissioned officers sit at table and talk. View of trainees entering Naval Aviation School Command building 633 on grounds of Naval Air Station Pensacola. Graduates from officer candidate school, Naval ROTC, and the Naval Academy sit in class and officer shows them model of aircraft and tells about its parts and functions. They study the functions of aicraft engines, viewing a model of an engine. They learn to take readings of airspeed and learn about navigation and aerodynamics. Close-up of monitor needles showing Lift, Drag, and Speed. They sit in a ejection simulator to experience the sensation of being ejected from an aircraft. They wear flight gear and learn how to function at 30,000 feet altitude. They perform callisthenic exercises, include jumping jacks, pushups and running, and they stay fit on an obstacle course. They get training in a swimming pool including use of a Dilbert Dunker to learn how to escape a submerged aircraft after ditching in water. They learn land-sea survival skills, and are seen training in a pool and in the open ocean, simulating survival situations at sea and on land. They practice escaping a parachute harness at sea, and how to board a life raft from the water. A pilot practices bailing water out of the life boat using his flight helmet. On land, they make a tent in the forest using their parachute, they learn to build and set snares to capture small animals. They learn about edible plants. Trainees seen gathered around a camp fire at night, cooking. Officers in uniform view T-28 Trojan aircraft flying overhead.
Primary flight training base near Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States. Men at base. Instructor teaches the trainee. Trainee gets training in T-34 Mentor training Aircrafts. Trainees get training in class about working of aircraft. Instructor teaches on board and gives exercise on model aircraft. A trainee and instructor in flight. Instructor guides trainee for aerobatics. The aircraft lands. Trainee takes off for solo flight. Aircraft in flight and then lands. Sign outside apartment reads "Q-2 Captain W.C. Adams, U.S. Navy." Two couples in a red Ford Mustang convertible. A woman catches a beach ball. A couple running in the surf at the beach. A couple sailing together in small sail boat. A couple playing tennis. A man and two women golfing. A man water skiing while a woman observes from a motor boat. A couple having a picnic barbecue grill hamburgers.
Specialized flight training at Pensacola, Florida and Naas, Meridian, United States. Trained pilot sits at a restaurant with his companion and talks about flying. Pilots at beach with their companions sit and talk about specialties they are going to choose, companions join in conversation. Various U.S. aircrafts perform different work. A Propeller single engine combat aircraft lands. 5 mortar crafts in formation. Three jet air crafts in flight. A carrier craft carries load from ship at sea. Men hang over sea from rescue aircraft. 4 Blue Angel aircrafts in flight. Board of Naas Meridian in Mississippi, United States. Pilot gets training in jet with an instructor, they get on aircraft and take off. They perform aerobatics. Aircraft in formation. Pilot trained for gunnery. T-28 Propeller at Pensacola training airbase in flight.
Aircraft carrier landing training for Navy pilots at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. View of North American T-2 Buckeye aircraft performing simulated aircraft carrier deck landing on a land runway configured with a mirror optical system to simulate a real aircraft carrier landing. North American T-2 Buckeye in flight over Gulf of Mexico with point of view shot from inside aircraft as it approaches carrier deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) to practice carrier landing. View from USS Lexington flight deck as T-2 Buckeye aircraft perform arrested landings. Pilot exits the aircraft having completed basic training. Next, during advanced jet training at Kingsville, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Grumman F-9 Cougar jet aircraft seen landing on airstrip. Pilots in class learn using working mockups and in a procedures trainer. Instructors and students in classroom training. View of student in cockpit simulator. He demonstrates control panel to them and gives training of jet flight procedure and its handling in odd situations. Pilot and instructor in F-9 Cougar on runway as wings descend into position for flight. Aerial view of F-9 Cougar aircraft in flight.
Pilot trainee in advanced flight training, United States. F-9 Cougar before takeoff and then in in flight. Pilot performs aerobatics in flight, like wingovers, rolls and loops. Pilot at simulated flight training siting in a basic jet simulator learning radio navigation. Pilot in flight learn Deduced Reckoning (DR) navigation. Instructor deprives trainee of part of system in flight to test him. View of readout on Nautical Miles Indicator Instrument disappearing. Pilot practices informing control about lost TACAN.
Naval aviator in training seen flying a F9 Cougar aircraft and practicing air to air gunnery and bombing and low level navigation. Aircraft landing on USS Lexington (CV-16) in Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi, Texas. Pilot Point of view (POV) shot from inside cockpit of aircraft as it descends approaching aircraft carrier deck for landing. Pilot performs arrested landing on deck of aircraft carrier. Two Grumman F-11 Tiger jet aircraft taking off from a ground runway, in tandem. Aerial views of formation of F-11 Tiger aircraft as they perform aerial rendezvous operations and fly in formation and in hunter-killer formation. Two F-11 aircraft perform strafing operations and aerial tactics and high altitude radar intercepts. View of pilot in cockpit of US Navy S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft, and then aerial view of S-2 Tracker aircraft in flight over water. Pilots training in helicopters. A pilot flying a Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter at Ellyson Field near Pensacola. Close-up view of pilot and instructor inside Bell H-13 helicopter in flight. View of H-34 Seahorse helicopter in flight and landing. Pilots get their wings pinned on during ceremony. African American naval aviator has his wings pinned on him by his wife. Senior captain representing chief of naval air advance training pins wings on pilot's uniform in a ceremony. View of P-3 Orion aircraft parked on airfield and pilot walking away from aircraft. View of P-3 Orion aircraft taking off directly overhead of viewer at end of runway. SH-2 Seasprite helicopter taking off and in flight out of Key West, Florida. F4B Phantoms. Navy pilots in briefing on an aircraft carrier learn about a training operation.
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