" SAFETY IN AIRCRAFT LINE OPERATIONS " 1954 U.S. NAVY TRAINING FILM A-1 SKYRAIDER 84364

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This 1954 U.S. Navy training film MN 9301 highlights safety in aircraft line operations. U.S. Navy planes taxi onto the runway, including A1D Skyraiders. Propellers spin, the jet intake whistles, and the jet exhaust is shown on a Grumman F-9F Cougar #127292 (:25-1:20). Gasoline is added from a tanker truck. The front guns are shown. Ammunition and rockets are loaded. A practice bomb is attached (1:21-1:49). Skyraider #967 and #956 are guided forward, as #512, #513, #516, #968, and #952 wait. An accident site and plane with its nose on a jeep are shown. An Aircraft Accident Report is filled in on a typewriter (1:50-2:11). A safety activity letter and safety advertising materials are stacked, including “Anymouse and His Hairy Tales” (2:12-2:40). A sign says “Beware of Propellers and Jet Blast” as an instructor leads a group of sailors (2:41-3:16). PREFLIGHTING. Skyraider #502. The sailor checks the cowling as well as loose gear that can be blown into other aircraft. The wheels are chocked. The sailor climbs in to check the ignition switches, the mixture control handle, and to turn on the engine. A sailor ties down a plane. An auxiliary power unit is attached. A sailor approaches with a fire bottle as the propellers begin to spin. An additional spotter is needed for a multi-engine aircraft (3:17-5:30). A pamphlet illustrates “Standard Aircraft Taxi Signals.” The start engine signal is given. Gasoline spills onto the ground. The fire bottle seal is checked up-close, opened, and the gasoline spill sprayed down. A “Fire Bill Discovery and Reporting” paper is shown (5:31-7:02). The engine propellers are warmed up. A sailor is blown back as he approaches a plane (7:03-7:45). An auxiliary power unit is attached to #955. A cartoon depicts a sailor being sucked into an air intake, and another losing all his clothes to the air intake. Another cartoon sailor walks too close behind the exhaust and his clothes are burned off. Flames shoot out a cartoon sailor’s ears after touching a hot tailpipe (7:46-9:08). HELICOPTER PREFLIGHTING. A Piasecki HUP-1 #124927 lands. A sailor waits with the fire bottle. A sailor gives the “engage rotors” signal and they begin to spin. The helicopter flies off (9:10-10:28). LOADING ARMAMENT. An ammunition truck is parked by Skyraider #502. An oil truck is waved away. The guns are shown. Practice bombs are attached. The plane taxis back to the de-arming area (10:29-12:17). TAXIING. Animation is shown of the taxi signalman’s responsibilities. The sailor keeps checking over his shoulder as he guides the airplane (12:18-13:22). FUELING. A JP3 Jet Fuel truck arrives. The truck and hose are grounded against static electricity and the tank filled (13:23-14:11). INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE. A sailor uses a work stand to reach the plane. A “Power Canopies can be Bear Traps” “Ejection Seats are Loaded” and “No Guard Rail!” posters are shown. A sailor is bundled up in cold weather. Sailors walk backwards in a high wind storm (14:12-15:08). Previously shown footage is shown again in review (15:09-16:19).
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[@joemoore4027]

Spent 4 years on the carrier USS Constellation for VA-146 in the 1970's. It was fun watching the training video, nothing had changed at all on the flight deck. Fun times !

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your comment and for your service to our great nation.

[@2003ranp]

I'm not old but they still use these in the United States Navy for training! Lol. Great memories!

[@Mtlmshr]

I can remember in 1979 I was a 17 year old kid at Dover AFB and under supervision I got to “Block in” a C-5 Transport Aircraft and I just remembered thinking that this thing is like parking something as big as a mall parking lot in a slot that was too small for it to fit on the flight line but with the help many other handlers and experienced pilots I managed to get that huge plane parked correctly! That was and still is a highlight in my life even at the age of 63 years old! Those dam planes are still flying!

[@harryh5620]

in 81 I was a new crew chief on KC-135s - my bird - built in 1957 - is STILL flying!

[@jaminova_1969]

I lived near a National Guard based and we used to park at the end of the runway to watch the C-5's take off! I can remember thinking, how does something that big even fly!

[@ypaulbrown]

Outstanding.....

[@dennisfox8673]

In my days of working at a national science foundation airbase (civilian, but with many military aircraft), an older hand imparted two nuggets of wisdom: 1) never chase your hat around a heliport, and 2) don’t walk near a propeller-turning or not-that’s just a bad habit. Whenever possible no hats were worn near the helicopters, but as it could be well below zero, you’d have to, in those times they’d either need a chin strap, or a tightly cinched hood.

[@LuciFeric137]

Had a lineman misfuel Commander Twin recip with jet A. He'd only seen Turbine Commanders before and assumed. Pilot hopped in, took off, both engines quit at about 60 seconds of flight. He turned around, landed back at the airport dead stick no damage other than fuel contamination issues.

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

What's proper procedure for identifying the correct fuel for any particular aircraft? Seems like this kind of thing might be pretty easy to get wrong! I was a fuel delivery driver and sometimes there was a lot of confusion about what fuel got delivered where!

[@roberthudson4822]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoy Periscope Films and was anxious to watch early '50s Navy air ops. Please Note: There are no Vought F4U Corsairs in this video. (In the description) Those 4-blade, 14' dia Aeroproducts props are connected to Douglas AD-1 Skyraiders (by way of a Wright R-3350 Turbo Compound radial engine).

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks -- we fixed this rather glaring error (we had a millenial do the write-up and she used Google image search to determine airplane models!)

[@TheFlow2006]

"some gas spills on the ground" man that was easy like 3-5 litres of gas, insane!

[@jaminova_1969]

USS Forrestal (CVA-59) has left the chat!

[@riff2072]

1:19 Fuel trucked parked in front of guns of the aircraft.

[@cyclesgoff9768]

It’s the hats anywhere on the tech site that shocks me.

[@DeltaVTX]

WEAR NO COVERS TOPSIDE

[@James-kd7dc]

Remember. In outer space stationary objects are travelling at you at 17thousand mph.

[@MusicSoundPlayer]

No. If you can make it to space, things just float

[@Legend813a]

That's just for low orbit... here on earth, just remember anything man-made orbiting the opposite direction would be your speed plus the other objects speed

[@James-kd7dc]

@@MusicSoundPlayer If you're doing a spacewalk on the iss things are travelling at you at 17 thousand mph.

[@MusicSoundPlayer]

@@James-kd7dc It's all just floating. Watch the footage

[@jdean2131]

FOD WALKDOWN. ALL HANDS ALL HANDS NOW HEAR THIS….FOD WALKDOWN….