U.S. NAVY 1950 NAVAL AVIATOR RECRUITMENT FILM PENSACOLA FLORIDA XD31001

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Made in 1950, this U.S. Navy recruitment film focuses on the training of naval aviators at Pensacola, Florida. It exposes new recruits to the training process and day to day activities for a Navy flier. They go over the general over view of the training and list the individual components of the program. It is aimed at encouraging new recruits to take the program seriously so that they can reap the rewards or risk being grounded. Fairly straight forward, non-technical intro to training style film.
The film starts with newspaper headlines from May 1942 and the Battle of the Coral Sea, newsreels about WWII, and the narrator Philip speaks about his personal motivation to avenge his brother’s death by joining the military.
Phillip is shown with buddies from college in Naval classes followed by physical conditioning. Military training, swimming and lots of playing sports.
Navy regulation texts, Engineering, meteorology, and latest technologies to simulate flight prior to actually flying. Octants and sextants, crash landing techniques and survival training.
Crash landing practice. Naval pilot is a valuable man and no expense is spared. Blind folded training for learning the cockpit panel. Ground control trainer to learn break pressure. After preflight, the airborne training begins (7:58) Trained by a Navy combat veteran, pre-solo dual instruction stage in an SNJ. Students are encouraged to fly alone, instructors are there just in case. Philip's 19th flight is his solo (9:50) Further training for radioing and controls. Instructions are Skip laughing off error, but flight trainer take training and instrumenting flying seriously, it matters in the Link trainer Acrobatics begins. Maneuvers are a definite part of the training syllabus. Formation flying for team work. Echelon join ups are rehearsed. Gunnery, affixed gunnery, get or get got. Fighter tactics: training films to visualize offense and defense. Flight course is fair but tough: cadet Skip gets booted. Pilots practice carrier landing on a runway and prepare to go to the next step, advanced training at Corpus Christie and then on to graduation.
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[@bcgrote]

My maternal grandfather started as enlisted at Sauffley Field in the beginning of WWII. At the end of the runway was a swamp. One day, he was told to report to that swamp. A pilot had over shot the landing and the plane was stuck. He was on the crew to tug that plane out of the mire and alligators by hand! Afterwards, he reported to his CO, and asked for ANY different assignment. They sent him to photography school. He took photos all through the War, and actually was on Bikini Atoll during testing. After he retired from USN, he was a photographer at a major zoo for decades. My paternal grandfather was stationed at Iolani Palace Hawaii in the 20s or 30s. Dad worked on anti sub drones, and my 2nd brother was a Navy sonar tech. Oldest bro and I went Marines.

[@Sabre2165]

Our grandfathers probably knew one another. My grandfather was a naval photographer, and described the only time he was ever in a crash: when his pilot went into a drainage ditch at Saufley Field and the aircraft pitched over onto its back. He had been doing photomapping in the Pacific and China during the 1930s and was a photo instructor at NAS Pensacola. He was later stationed on Ford Island right up until a couple of months before the Japanese attack, when his family moved to the US mainland. He was a plank-holder (a member of the crew at commissioning) of USS Ticonderoga, CV-14. He was aboard, under Captain Dixie Kiefer when she was attacked by kamikaze aircraft in January of '45 off Formosa (Taiwan). After the war he was a photographic officer assigned to cover the atomic bomb tests, first with Operation Crossroads at Bikini in 1946 and continuing through the hydrogen bomb tests in the early 50s.

[@dionengdulalia2659]

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[@kenmarsh2668]

While approaching 77 years of age I have many things to look back on, both positive and negative, and one of the most outstanding things was becoming a Naval Aviator in 1970 and being able to fly attack aircraft on and off a carrier both day and night, along with many other aircraft. The training is the very best in the world and the proof of that is that the skills both as a pilot and the ability to tackle most any challenge positively have remained with me since the first takeoff in the T-34 basic trainer to today.

[@josephpadula2283]

A-7’s or A-4?

[@kenmarsh2668]

@@josephpadula2283 A-6 Intruder

[@KutWrite]

Greetings! You were there a year before I was. Sadly, I ended up like "Skip" in the film, though the rest of my ACDU time was still outstanding.

[@kenmarsh2668]

@@KutWrite Thanks for your reply and your service, regards Ken.

[@shughes5725]

This was exciting. My Dad was in Flight School at Pensacola in 1950. I was hoping I'd actually see him. He passed away in 1983, but at least I now have an idea what he experienced.

[@allentate3760]

Same here!

[@Fiftyx60]

A big THANK YOU! to Periscope Films for preserving these films and making them available.

[@jonathanhorne6503]

This was fun to watch. Dad was an AvCad at JAX and winged December 5, 1941. He was on his way to pacific by mid January. He did two tours in pacific before 1945, for Korea he was a navigator on an aircraft carrier and he retired in 1962. 10k hrs.

[@timanderson5543]

I went to aircrew school at Pensacola in 1979.a very high concentration of officers,lots of saluting.

[@josephstevens9888]

When I was at Maxwell AFB, Alabama attending the Senior Noncommissioned Officers Academy in 2005, I happen to be exploring the city of Montgomery (which adjoins Maxwell), I saw a sign near a cemetery pointing the way to Hank Williams grave. When I got to William's grave, right next to it where two large-sized plots. One was for British cadet pilots who lost their lives at Maxwell during training accidents during WW2, and another were for French pilots. Both sections had a flag pole with their nation's flag. There was a historical plaque describing the number of fatal mishaps during pilot training during the war at Maxwell - which was stunning. I very much enjoyed this peak into the past of Naval Aviation!

[@kellywilson8440]

Naval and Marine carrier aviators are among the very best in the world !

[@skyhawk61]

Ya’ betcha!! A bit biased maybe. Got my Wings of Gold and 2ndLt commission Dec ‘61..

[@kellywilson8440]

@@skyhawk61 Roger that sir !

[@alfabethev2.074]

Said the humble Umerrican...!

[@kramnevets8712]

Correction: Navy and Marine aviators ARE the best in the world.

[@LEVELGAZANOW]

Wings of Gold in Beeville, Tx

[@jmfa57]

I still see the occasional SNJ fly over my house. Maybe because I live near the Planes of Fame Air museum, but STILL... I know the sound!!!

[@billhiggins-ha4all795]

It looks like the students and the staff had a lot of fun at times. During the second summer at the Naval Academy, Midshipmen are given a short taste of serving in what were then the four branches that were available after graduation two years later (Navy Air, Nuclear Power, Surface Line, or the Marine Corps). For each, we spent nearly a week before having to rotate to the next one. Unfortunately, my week at Pensacola had difficulties. On the day that my group was scheduled to try the "Dilbert Dunker," it was broken and out of commission. A few days later I was among a different group scheduled for a training flight. Again, something went wrong with the plane and I missed that opportunity as well. I ended up choosing Nuclear Power and being a Submarine Officer. I was part of only the second class at the Naval Academy with women. Only five women could be chosen for air billets and five could be chosen for surface line ships. Women couldn't serve on combatant vessels or on submarines (preventing them from going nuclear power). While some nuclear power ships were surface ships (aircraft carriers, USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), USS Long Beach (CGN-9), USS Truxton (DLGN-35), and the USS California (CGN-36) class cruisers), they were all combatant vessels. Ensign Cary Jones died as part of an air-to-air collision at primary flight school, where all on both aircraft died. She was the first of 13 classmates to die while on active duty. One died at the Marine Barracks terrorist bombing in Beirut and one died at the Pentagon during the September 11th terrorist attack.

[@stefanschutz5166]

Thank you so much from Amsterdam.

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[@Yabbagabbagool]

Great piece of film; really enjoyed seeing the flight simulator tech of the period with that lil' model airplane

[@mrs6968]

Another goodie

[@andymckane7271]

Fly Navy!

[@gerometorribio2127]

This is a beautiful film, but the volume needed to be raised. I could barely understand it with my iPad volume cranked up full-the. The first commercial nearly blew my ears out.

[@tylernewton7217]

Have fun peeling potatoes, Skip!

[@russellhamer8690]

A GEM of a site,posting yesteryear n All that came with it...Air Corp n Army,Marine,Navy personnel were treated to movie style training that obviously worked,after all who doesn't love the fliks..Visual learning is just better if you ask me... INSTRUCTIONS or KZbin video instructions..

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[@rotorheadv8]

When I went through in the early 80s, the wash-out rate was around 70%

[@Daledavispratt]

Man, I sure could go for a baked potato now...

[@Gods_Aviator]

If I was aloud to join the military as a Naval Aviator by me' family; I would.

[@edgardocarrasquillo9]

Ready for Korea

[@aaaht3810]

I didn't know SNJ trainers had guns fitted.

[@モグ太郎-m7m]

情報の出し方は大切です。 日本の自衛隊も学んで欲しい。

[@douglasdavis8395]

Sure, easy for you to say.

[@billdurham8477]

Sea Power For Security, wow the CCP have learned that, ironic that an ad played was for The Final War. So, got the Corpus Cristy advanced training film??? PS So at this point no more Yellow Peril for basic?

[@josephpadula2283]

I know they always need new blood but you might think after WWII there would have been enough of the hundred thousand pilots that were trained that would want to stay in they would not need to recruit new guys!

[@benjaminperez7328]

Is that Teddy Ballgame @ 2:35? Let me ask his frozen head…………………..🥶

[@stevegregg5354]

Swing was to ugly😊

[@pbcanal1]

Throw in a hot dog and a pretty girl and you have something hard to beat!

[@lawrencequave7361]

Lot of double-entendre in that one, huh?

[@ronalddaub9740]

I have vintage navy training manuals. And airplane manual for F6f3 f6f5n pilot handbook for sale

[@CaptNavyJake]

Voice sounds a little like Ronald Reagan??

[@JDAbelRN]

Don't think so, but he did a lot of narration of military training films.

[@leonmannaerts3057]

A great generation of naval aviators ready to fight for their country. How would they view the woke US military of today where the top brass is more interested in fighting climate change and applying critical race theory, diversity and equity. Not tools to win a future conflict.

[@MarioGon-y5r]

Fajny film