USAFE ( United States Air Force in Europe ) Flight Safety film illustrating the kinds of errors that can cause aircraft accidents. A Flight Safety Officer points to photograph of a crashed F-86 airplane and lectures to pilots. He says that most of accidents occur because of minor mistakes. A Captain, pilot, naps during the lecture. The most common pilot errors in USAFE written on a blackboard. After ignoring the lecture, the Captain prepares a flight plan at Base Operations. He fails to check NOTAMS (notices to Airmen)and declines assistance from Base weather officer. He performs perfunctory preflight inspection, initials Form 1, and taxis for takeoff breathing 100% oxygen. After takeoff, he levels at 30 thousand feet and makes position report. Sensing hypoxia, he sees oxygen depleted and must dive to lower safe altitude (where fuel consumption rate is too high). He tunes destination radio beacon, becomes disoriented and calls for steer to destination, which is below minimums for GCA (ground controlled approach). He goes to Alternate, has trouble with landing gear, runs low on fuel, and luckily lands safely, but runs out of fuel and must be towed to parking place. A litany of his mistakes is recounted.
Original design document of the DC-3. View of a Douglas DC-3 suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington, DC. View of DC-3 plane taking off and in flight. 'Bonanza' written on the plane. Historic views of military use of the DC-3 over the years, including use in WWII for dropping paratroops, for carrying cargo, such as the Berlin Airlift, and as a gunship in the Vietnam War. Personnel inside a C-47 "Gooney Bird" operating M134 rotary-barreled machine gun miniguns. A newspaper headline reads 'US Depends on Air to Ship Berlin Freight' referring to use of the aircraft in the Berlin Airlift. Interior view of the DC-3 as a luxury passenger aircraft, circa 1939. Discussion with a current executive of the McDonnell Douglas aircraft Company, Michael Burch. Scenes of DC-3 aircraft being manufactured by war production workers in large factory plants during World War 2 era. Various scenes of vintage DC-3 aircraft, crews, passengers, DC-3 at airports, and interior and exterior views over the years. A DC-3 passenger airplane at a commercial airport taxis on a runway.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the ground as seen through the gun camera of a United States Air Force (USAF) F-100D Super Sabre fighter aircraft piloted by S. Wiggins of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Smoke rises due to an explosion. Aerial view of a water body.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of a BLU-27 Fire Bomb explosion as seen from a United States Air Force (USAF) F-100D Super Sabre fighter aircraft piloted by E. R. Johnson of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Aerial view of a wooded area. Aerial view of the explosion. Aerial view of 20 mm casings trailing towards the ground.
Air strikes in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of a United States Air Force Douglas B-26B Invader making a run over a target area in a jungle. Aerial view of the B-26B aircraft dropping a napalm bomb. Aerial view of the jungle as seen from th aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from the napalm bomb explosion.
Air strikes in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of a United States Air Force Douglas A-1H Skyraider dropping napalm bombs and circling over a jungle. The aircraft makes a low pass along a canal and over huts. Aerial view of smoke rising.
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