Features original archival audio and narration from 1943.
Excerpt from part 3 of a rare 1943 restricted series of pilot training films about HOW TO FLY THE P-47.
Part 3 of the series focuses on high altitude flight and aerobatics with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. It covers: Operational handling in dives, loops, slow rolls, Immelmann turns, spins, recoveries, and half rolls. Precise pilot precautions and airspeed regulations across various operational altitudes.
Produced by The Jam Handy Organization for the US ARMY AIR Forces in cooperation with Republic Aviation Corporation, this archival reel features fascinating and thorough insights about the mechanics of flying the P-47, used to train pilots during WW2.
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Shot-list:
THE HALF ROLL:
00:00 Drawing of manoeuvre followed by sequence of P-47 doing the Half rolls a few times while the procedure is explained.
00:18 Diagram: Half Roll Altitude Chart
00:50 Beginning of sequence of the P-47 Thunderbolt repeating all the manoeuvres.
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The P-47 training film clip here uses a read VO script that strongly and deliberately (but misleadingly) implies both audibly and visually that it is the pilot’s failure to follow recommended power setting procedure that causes the crash, while it downplays, even one could say fails properly to identify at all that it is the high entry airspeed / insufficient altitude combination that is the real culprit of the crash.
At best it comflates the two variables (IAS and throttle setting) as equally responsible for the crash. This is typical U.S. training methodology to keep pilots thinking like working class car or tractor drivers, who are users of gears and gas pedals to control speed and prevent crashes of earthbound vehicles) instead of pilots of aircraft, who are disciplined managers of complex advanced imperialist war machines and the energy state of their aircraft.
In this segment it is overwhelmingly the entry airspeed that causes the crash. Not the incorrect (and incredibly oversimplified) throttle setting.
The pilot’s failure to understand energy management and think and intuitively plan and react like a pilot caused the aircraft to crash. This intermediate USAAF training film continues to teach the advanced intermediate pilot (the P-47 is a very high powered and complex combat aircraft system) to keep thinking like a cab driver in Newark, New Jersey or a tractor driver in Ottumwa, Iowa.
U.S. economic ruling class Hollywood’s use of individual virtues, patronizing comic characters and prejudicial, cynically satiric and caricature regional, cultural and class stereotypes along with employing fear of unwanted consequences, superior officer anger and the value of simple obedience to authority, rather than the transformative power of systematic knowledge and the class’s mastery of advanced technology … all these very carefully constructed Hollywood films served an ideological economic class function that served the purposes of the wealthy economic and political class in America.
American wartime training films treated technical education as a temporary and coincidental personal modification of a permanent social and economic role or type. The urban working-class or rural agricultural worker trainee acquired procedures without being represented as intellectually or socially or economically transformed by them. His courage arose from some mystical national qualities, his innate grit, his learned competence from repetitive hard work, and his heroism that arose selfless sacrifice in obedience within an institution whose knowledge and ownership and right to command remained above him.
Our American WWII films taught working men responsibly and independently to operate some of the most advanced machines in existence, while often being responsible for the lives of crews of men, while simultaneously teaching them not to draw permanent transformative social and economic conclusions from those responsibilities, operation and command.
We working people could make, maintain and fly the aircraft, repair the engines, navigate the continent, and help to defeat Nazis and Japanes imperialists. But we were not to conclude that we could understand, govern and OWN the industrial society that had trained us, and we had worked successfully to defend. Our skill was temporary, our heroism personal, and our class place unchanged at the cessation of the conflict and mass mobilization of our effort within advanced finance-industrial society.
Thanks for showing what a split S is.
iconic af
Power to idle.
Imma use this in Warthunder now
What is meant by power off? Throttle to idle?
Cool 😊
Pretty cool
Don't think I'd be too skeptical after watching that 😂