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U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (1959)

1959 · Short film · 13 min

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(1959) is a color, training and recruiting film produced by the United States Navy that details the importance of the Naval Air Test Center’s Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland. The film details the curriculum and aircraft test flying process for student pilots and features footage of various United States Navy aircraft including the Vought Crusader. Opening credits, title page overlaid footage of United States Navy aircrafts taking off from aircraft carrier (0:07). Vought F-8 Crusader with blaze orange, test center markings, prepares for testing in airfield at Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland (0:24). Naval aviators in uniform walk into United States Naval Test Pilot School located at test center (0:57). Interior of classroom: wooden school chairs and chalk board with mathematical calculations (1:14). Textbooks used in course and subjects covered: Calculus, thermodynamics, plane and spherical trigonometry, cartesian coordinates, aerodynamics (1:18). Pilots enter room and fill seats, look over material in pairs (1:29). Naval instructor draws on blackboard, lectures to students on “buffet boundary” (2:27). Students check flight syllabus board after morning classes end (2:54). Pilot conducts ground check of plane, prepares for buffet boundary test; Another Navy pilot flies parallel course during test both in FJ-4 Fury; Montage pilots talking to each other during flight test (3:10). Pilot sits in office and writes flight test report with seven…

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Running time
13 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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