Synopsis
This 1974 color promotional film for the Gates Learjet Corporation touts their luxury business-class private jet models 24D, 25B, 25C, 35 and 36, showing international takeoffs, landings, and chartered flights (TRT 19:10). Engine start sequence: Battery switches are flipped on the pilot’s switch panel in a Learjet cockpit. Switches for strobe, anti-collision (beacon), and navigation lights. Red reflectors rotate. The starter/generator switch (0:11). A turbine in closeup. Engine RPM gauges. A hand grips the throttle. Ignition of a jet engine with flames. RPMs climb (0:22). Wide shot of a Learjet taking off from a runway. Aerial photography: A model 24D banking over coastal beaches and buildings of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Urban high-rise architecture and Sugarloaf Mountain. Wing trestle markings show registration stencilling (PT-DZU) (0:50). Title overlay zoom: “Learjet World” (1:15). A Learjet taxis on a runway, backlit by sun breaking through clouds (1:23). A Learjet 25C/XR owned by LG Electronics taxiing. A model 25B (N93C) taxiing at night. 24D (PT-DZU) taxiing, with “LIDER” on the rudder. A German-owned 24D, (D-CCAT) (1:43). One plane on a runway, another flying overhead (2:04). Takeoff from a rural runway, vanishing into clouds (2:21). Cockpit interior. An instrument panel shows an angle-of-attack indicator, an artificial horizon with slip ball and turn coordinator, the altimeter and tachometer. Pilot’s and passenger’s views of the sky (2:50). A parked 24D (N60GL) for…
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Details
- Running time
- 19 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Learjet
- Learjet World
- 1947
- Private Business Jet Model
- Gates Learjet
- Stock Footage