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How to fly: The B-17 - Ground Operations (1943)

1943 · Short film · 34 min

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Synopsis

Military training film in which an instructor takes a new B-17 bomber pilot through preflight inspections of the aircraft and preparation for departure.

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Studio
Boeing Aircraft Company, U.S. Army Air Forces
Released
1943-01-24
Running time
34 minutes

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Appreciate WWII Skills of Pilots · GapOkie · 2012-05-28

Very interesting to see the detail required to fly one of the WWII bombers. B-T-W, Arthur Kennedy was the instructor, not Kevin McCarthy. Kennedy played the reporter, Jackson Bently, in the great movie "Lawrence of Arabia".

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