RAF Training Films

WWII Aircraft Identification Film Focke-Wulf FW-187 Fighter. (6 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuoirOohQI

 

WWII Aircraft Identification Film Focke-Wulf FW-190 Fighter. (6 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFdCnla1HE

 

WW II Soviet Training Film on the strengths and weakness points of the FW 190 A-4 Fighter. (13 Minutes.)

Vastly superior to its Allied counterpart.


Thanks for this and the English Subtitles to: http://www.youtube.com/user/BitnikGr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESIq6g1ODo

 

The USAAF Grumman TBF "Avenger" Torpedo Bomber (1944)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gId18EYl2kU

 

The USAAF Grumman F6F Fighter: Meet the Hellcat (1943)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUziAyx6hG4

 

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Avro Lancaster start up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3u5pqwNjGw

 

WW2 British Air Ministry Aircraft Recognition Cards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyEw3oj_kfo

 

Walt Disney Productions - Four Methods Of Flush Riveting - Aircraft Manufacturing

This cartoon shows how to rivet an airplane so that the rivets are flat to the surface to avoid turbulence caused by raised areas on the aircraft's skin.
This short was produced by the Disney Studios for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, distributed by National Film Board of Canada.
This is very important historically as being Walt Disney's "pilot" effort to show how effective animation could be used in training films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXEjn7f330

 

Walt Disney WW2 Army Air Forces Film: Camouflage

The widespread familiarity of Walt Disney's productions benefited the US government in producing support for the war.
In "Camouflage", the purpose is a bit different -- it's an attempt to educate members of the U.S. Army Air Forces about this vital skill.
In it, Hoodie the Chameleon explains the importance of camouflage and decoys for equiment and ground installations against aerial attacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb36GQO14k0

 

Walt Disney Productions - Victory Through Air Power (1943)

See also: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfgySee_vE8O1Q0ycmzLIw

This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing.
Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
After its initial release and re-release in 1943-44, the film was never publicly released or screened in the United States again for 60 years.
Only the opening fragment of the "History of Flight" was shown on Disney specials.
This changed in May 2004, when Disney released a fully re-mastered and uncut version of "Victory Through Air Power" on the Disney Masterpieces "On the Front Lines" DVD set.

Walt Disney was already working on a picture about the history of aviation when production began on this film, so that material was used as a prologue.

After seeing the movie (at Winston Churchill's urging), Franklin D. Roosevelt finally committed to a full strategic air campaign against Germany.

All of Alexander de Seversky's live-action monologue sequences were filmed on the Disney backlot late at night to avoid noise pollution from the nearby Lockheed aircraft factory.

RKO Radio Pictures (Disney's usual distributor) saw no profit in this movie, and refused to carry it. Walt Disney therefore contracted with United Artists for theater distribution.

When Alexander de Seversky worried that he was unable to both speak and hit his marks simultaneously, director H.C. Potter
reminded him of all that he had had to do from his flying days and told him, in a mock Russian accent, to "diwide the attention."
Seversky loved that so much that it became a signal word when filming began; whenever shooting was about to begin, the crew would shout, "Diwide the attention!"

Factual errors
The film claims the German's used air power to break through the Maginot line to conquer France. In reality, the German forces avoided directly engaging the Line and instead completely circumvented it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7NjJ59bf0M

 

I stumbled upon this Soviet Red Army Air Force Training Film for Air Force pilots on the strengths and weakness points of Ju 87 D-3 Stuka Dive Bomber.

Vastly superior to it's Allied Counterparts.

Thanks, especially for the English Subtitles goes to: http://www.youtube.com/user/BitnikGr?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnjpdT4G9tI

 

Dramatized 1945 US Navy flight training film: "Primary Flight Instruction Landings." (13 Minutes.)
How to land a plane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTYJ3L6TQnY

 

Very, very basic "first day" stuff, but for those that have never taken a pilots course....

Primary Flight Training "Attitudes of Flight" (16 Minutes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbymXiomaE

 

Identification of Aircraft (1942) - Japanese Fighters (11 Minutes.)
Thanks to: http://www.youtube.com/user/wdtvlive42?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtkMhqXDhQ

 

United States Navy training film cartoon on flight safety, point out the necessity of keeping aware of your altitude and using instruments on high speed dives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBiMHpr3Lc0

 

The US Navy pioneered dive bombing techniques after World War I and it shows in this informative film, produced by the Department of the Navy in 1943. (24 Minutes.)
Thanks to: http://www.youtube.com/user/ZenosWarbirds?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOz_i_2USkY

 

Soviet Training Film on the strengths and weakness points of the Junkers Ju 52 Tante Ju / "Auntie Ju" Transport / Bomber.

Thanks for this and the English Subtitles to: http://www.youtube.com/user/BitnikGr?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2XcqUu0RQ

 

Soviet Training Film on the strengths and weakness points of the long range JU 200 Condor Bomber / Transport.
Thanks for this and the English Subtitles to: http://www.youtube.com/user/BitnikGr?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GaLupEmOEo

 

Luftwaffe Me 262 Training Film 1944 (46 Minutes.)

Thanks for this and for the English Commentary to: http://www.youtube.com/user/brunosoto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR8GM9DuHQ4