Dc-3 Airplane Trip Educational Movie Los Angeles to Salt Lake City 57564 (1939)

Synopsis

An Airplane Trip,” a 1939 black-and-white ERPI Classroom Films Inc. produced instructional sound film, combines the novelty of flying in the early days with basic inner workings of a passenger plane. The film opens with a mother and her young daughter entering the Los Angeles Union Air Terminal ( 0:30 ). They purchase their tickets to Salt Lake City at the terminal ( 0:47 ). They then head outside to the gate and watch in awe and anticipation as the airplane rolls slowly to the landing field ( 1:00 ). The United Airlines metal plane, a DC-3 monoplane, is described as having big soft tires, two motors and two propellers, with one set of wings ( 1:04 ). Although the first successful aircraft were biplanes, the first attempts at heavier-than-air flying machines were monoplanes, and many pioneers continued to develop monoplane designs. A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with a single main wing plane, in contrast to a biplane or other multiplane, each of which has multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing configuration and is the simplest to build. However, during the early years of flight, these advantages were offset by its greater weight and lower maneuverability, making it relatively rare until the 1930s. Since then, the monoplane has been the most common form for a fixed-wing aircraft (Wikipedia). The monoplane in the film has windows in the front for the pilot and many more in the back. Airplane mechanics are seen…

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Running time

10 minutes

Language

English

Collection

Ephemeral Films

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