Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.
A U.S. Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield in the United States, that appears to have some construction work taking place on it (dump truck in background) during World War 2. The P-40's landing gear takes a long time to retract after takeoff, with the right gear lingering down, well after the left has retracted. Aloft, the P-40 maneuvers around a slow-moving light aircraft camera plane, joining up near it and flying rapidly away, and then diving toward it.
United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft photographed from another airplane as it performs aerobatic maneuvers in World War 2. The P-40 seen close to the camera plane, as it peels off and dives. Later it is seen at a distance, performing loops, rolls, and other aerobatics. It flies low over a building of the Curtiss Aircraft Company Plant #2 at the Buffalo Airport.
A film depicts safety measures of the United States Army Air Force on the Bermuda Islands. Two USAAF motor rescue launches, P-713 and P-359 (rescue boats) anchored at a sea beach. Crew work on board. Crew personnel smoke while playing cards on a rescue boat.
A film depicts safety measures of the United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) on the Bermuda Islands. The crew of a USAAF C-54E Skymaster aircraft in two rubber life rafts in the ocean as the C-54E sinks. A USAAF SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft in flight. The captain of a rescue boat at the controls. The rescue boat underway. The SB-17G aircraft is guided by smoke flare and mirror signals. It drops a rescue boat with the help of a parachute. The C-54E crew leaves the rubber rafts and gets into the rescue boat. A rescue launch beside the rescue boat. The rescue launch picks up the C-54E crew from the rescue boat. The crew sits in the rescue launch. They have coffee. One of them smokes. A stern view of the rescue boat.
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