A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) training film titled 'How to fly the B-17. Part I. Ground Operations.' about inspections and safety precautions by a pilot prior to take off. A USAAF officer trains a new pilot beginning his career as a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress pilot. The instructing officer, trainee pilot and aircraft engineer inspect a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress. Cockpit check including seat and controls check: Seat check: seat belts, seat adjustment, rudder pedals. Control check: rudders and elevator controls unlocked, lock down and latched, aileron lock. Trim tab indicators inspection: rudder tab control, elevator tab control, aileron tab control. Check for: fuel transfer valves and switches, inter-coolers, JAIROS, fuel shut off switches, landing gear switch, cowl flaps, turbos, waste gate open, idle cut offs, throttles, RPM, auto pilot, de-ice and anti-ices, wing and propellers, cabin heat controllers, generators. Engine start check: The officer instructs the pilot to check for the fire guard with a fire extinguisher standing by near each engine. The pilot warns the ground crew for propeller clearance. (World War II period).
Meeting of National Recovery Act officials. Men put a lock on a Brooklyn poultry farm. Close up of the lock on the door. President of the American Federation of Labor William Green is seen as narrator explains that the shuttering of the poultry farm by the NRA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Monuments in Washington DC, United States. The White House in Washington DC. Fountains in the garden in front of the White House. Mount Vernon in morning mist. Famed Japanese cherry blossoms. A woman walking on a path by the tidal basin with Cherry blossoms all around. View of Jefferson Memorial across the tidal basin, framed by cherry tree in bloom. A sentry of the Third United States Infantry, The Old Guard, maintaining a 24-hour vigil at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetary. A signboard in a lawn reads 'Frederick Douglass Home' and a house in the background. A flight of steps leading to the house. View of tall buildings along a street in the city. A sign advertising "Godspell" outside Ford's Theater, beside a street lamp on a sidewalk, and across the street, a sign on the railing of the first floor of the building reads 'House where Lincoln died'. The red-colored Smithsonian "Castle" building. Rhinosaurus statue in front of the Smithsonian museum of natural history, on the mall. Water flowing by locks ot the C&O canal, and a canal barge afloat within a lock.
A training film based on flight operations of U.S. Navy F8U-1 Crusader fighter aircraft in the United States. An F8U-1 taxis and takes off from a runway. A pilot at the instrument panel of the F8U-1 in the cockpit. The F8U-1 taxis and takes off to show working of rudder, retracting of landing gear, lowering of wings at various levels of speed. The pilot moves the wing incidence handle to down position and brings lock handle to lock handle. Switches are turned on the instrument panel. The F8U-1 at high altitude. The exhaust temperature meter and the oil pressure meter of the F8U-1.
U.S. Navy F8U-2N Crusader aircraft missile attack operation using the acquisition and fire control system, United States. F8U-2N in flight with engine on afterburner. Various gauges on instrument panel. F8U-2N in flight. Pilot turns on the engine, anti-icing system and indicator lights glow. APQ-83 radar mounted in nose cone of F8U-2N. Pilot turns clutter limiting switch, scan switch to normal and turns on fire control system. Pilot sets up armament panel. Radar power switch being set to normal and antenna being tilted up by pilot, radar scope being adjusted. Pilot uses radar control stick and sets the brilliance and the gain. Antenna being restored to normal. Artificial horizon on radar scope. Test button being pressed by pilot. Target is located. Pilot tilts antenna up and down and moves hand control until the acquisition circle is centered over target. Acquisition switch being pressed to lock on. Radar enters acquisition mode. Radar scope indicates radar being locked on target. Autopilot being disengaged by pilot. Radar scope in track mode. Target range and maximum range is displayed on radar scope. Target in attack position. F8U-2N pulls up towards target and missile being fired. Target exploding.
A voyeur uses his binoculars to search for a woman to prey on. View of various apartment windows at night, going from window to window, showing neighbors in their evening activities such as watching television, playing an electric guitar or reading books. View becomes fixed on woman putting on makeup. Woman dabs night cream on her eyelids and checks her mirror. Man looking through binoculars at night to spy on woman. Lights go off in apartment viewed through window. The woman brushes her teeth in the bathroom. Shadow of walking figure seen through window curtains at night. Woman dressed in robe and fuzzy slippers stretches in her bedroom. Dark figure of a man walking on a fire escape at night. A black cat in a window at night. Camera pan across apartment mailboxes at night and stopping on one with name “Donna Jenson”. Man looking under door mat and above door lantern for hidden key and putting key into door lock at night. Close up of a finger searching through phone book page. Man walking through passage way at night. Woman's hand opening chain door lock and opening door to reveal man standing at door in the night. Dark shadow of a man walking a fire escape at night. Black cat walking on window ledge at night. Paramedics put unconscious woman on stretcher into an ambulance.
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