DITCHING PROCEDURES FOR C-54 SKYMASTER AIRCRAFT U.S. AIR FORCE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND 11834

[@rumpstatefiasco]

The narrator’s voice is pure comfort food to me, from a far more sensible era. My wife thinks I’m nuts because I could listen to this narrator every day; twice on Sunday, see? ❤

[@relathan1]

Arthur Kennedy!!! one of my favorites too!

[@rumpstatefiasco]

@@relathan1 Thanks for his name!

[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

Everything is gonna be ok, see?

[@rumpstatefiasco]

@@B_Estes_Undegöetz 😉

[@johnt.4947]

@@relathan1 Thank-you! His voice was familiar. I "knew" who it was, but I couldn't place a name with it.

[@Jerry10939]

I love these old training films. The information is still valid.

[@nopelindoputraperkasa5869]

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[@WAL_DC-6B]

Interesting, period U.S. military aviation safety film. Thanks for sharing! I think this may have been filmed in the 1940s (postwar) as the national insignia on the C-54 Skymaster lacks the middle, horizontal (red) stripe that came about on U.S. Military aircraft about 1947 or '48.

[@jds6206]

In 1957 my grandmother flew from Michigan to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for some sort of a conference. Constellations for much of the trip. Once or twice a "three-engine" Constellation. It was known among commercial airliner pilots of the day as, "the best three-engine airliner in the world". No worries; almost all airliner pilots of 50s era had been WWII bomber pilots.

[@Mikeb8134]

Love these things.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@neves5083]

It's clearly outdated but still makes you feel like "hey, this is really safe, our chances are really high" and makes you even more comfortable to think that modern survival kits for ditching must be even safer providing even higher chances of survival.

[@postal_the_clown]

Never got to fly in a C-54 but did fly from Eglin to Cannon in a C-118 and we never got the drill. I guess over land you're S.O.L. 🙂 Either way, fine film.

[@jamesmatticks70]

WHAT??? The FE is only responsible for the engines? He’s responsible for the complete mechanical condition of the aircraft! The PIC only signs the paper work! How’s he supposed to know if the aircraft has been maintained to standards if he doesn’t oversee it as it’s done? “S**t flows downhill”, as the old saying goes!!!

[@thomasharroun8068]

Hopefully no sharks when jumping into water to invert the raft. Also difficult to do in North Atlantic in 28 degree water

[@bigjohnson1092]

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