This film is unclassified. It is a 1United States Navy training film made in 1945 by Wilding Picture Productions, Inc. Title: Primary Flight Training. Taxiing and Take-Offs.  The purpose of the film is to educate US Navy pilots on taxiing and take-offs in their aircraft. The movie opens with an instructor in front of a blackboard and three pictures of airplanes in transition :47. The instructor takes a model plane on his desk and imitates a takeoff and a landing 1:00. On the tarmac, plane runs its propeller 1:30. An animation shows a pilot in the cockpit 1:40. The plane captain waves the pilot out onto the runway 2:40. The plane captain directs the pilot with hand signals 3:00. An officer speaks to a pilot 4:00. The pilot is getting reprimanded for safety violations 4:30. Man washes a plane 5:30. The movie returns to the man in the classroom in front of the blackboard 5:41. The techniques of pulling out of and onto the tarmac are reviewed 6:50. Maneuvers on the airstrip are shown 7:45. The application of the brakes are shown 8:10. An animation of takeoff is shown 8:30. An animation of wind conditions on the runway is shown 9:20. A weathervane is shown 9:30. A plane prepares to take flight 10:07. A plane backs into another plane on the runway 10:25. Beware of taxiing on the runway. The pilot clears the runway 11:15. The pilot makes turns to assure safe takeoff 11:45. The pilot comes to the takeoff position 12:40. The pilot prepares to take off by glancing at everything in front 13:05. The instructor speaks to us again 13:40. The plane takes off and we have a cockpit view 14.35. The plane has an aerial view and is about 200 feet above the ground 15:00. You look well ahead of the airplane when you are on takeoff 15:50. In exercising, keeping the wings level is shown 16:35. Getting the nose down too low is dangerous 16:58. Takeoff attitude is shown 17:30. When a plane is ready to fly, you need only need to raise its nose to get it off the ground 18:15. Looking around while making a climbing turn is important 19:10. Keep the Fleet to Keep the Peace. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment!  See something interesting?  Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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