Victory Through Air Power Page #2
- Year:
- 1943
- 70 min
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against insurmountable odds...
bucking strong winds
and treacherous air currents...
losing precious moments...
with indomitable courage
and the will to win...
the daring flyer
crashed on and on.
Forty-nine days later
at Pasadena...
Rodgers arrived
with only one strut...
and part of the taiI intact
from the originaI plane.
Just barely missing
the prize by 19 days...
this modest hero confidently
predicted that someday...
somebody would fly
across the country in 30 days.
And so,
for the next few years...
to thrill the public...
but was regarded as a novelty
with no practicaI uses.
The airplane,
at the tender age of ten...
went off to war.
At first,
aircraft was considered...
to have very little
military value...
except for
observation purposes.
A spirit of
sportsmanship existed...
between the rivaI pilots.
As they would pass
each other...
over the lines...
they would wave
a friendly greeting...
and sometimes take pictures
of one another...
which led to
an unusuaI development.
Sacr bleu!
This is outrage!
And so, the next day...
Oof!
The following day...
being a hothead
as well as a squarehead...
Fritz took a potshot at Pierre.
Oh!
Duels with pistols,
shotguns, and rifles...
led to the installation
of the machine gun...
successfuI
but for one small detaiI-
The propeller got in the way.
Then science developed
the synchronizing device...
to allow the bullets
to pass between...
of the propeller.
The airplane became
a formidable weapon of war.
The merciless pressure
of warfare...
developed highly specialized
types of planes.
The dropping of grenades
and hand bombs...
led to a new and terrible
instrument of war-the bomber.
The terrific competition
of aeriaI combat...
compelled the rapid improvement
of aircraft.
More than 20,000 conflicts
were fought in the air.
The forced development
of aircraft...
would have taken 20 years
to accomplish in peacetime.
Yet the war ended before
the military potentiaI
of air power.
As a war-weary public
transferred its interest...
to peacetime activities...
the airplane again
had to struggle for existence.
The "Fly with Me"
gypsy flyer...
barnstormed
all over the country.
the airplane...
as an exciting novelty...
farsighted airmen
were compelling the public...
to look upon aviation
with a new respect.
The U.S. Navy NC-4 flew
from Newfoundland to England...
via the Azores.
The first nonstop
transatlantic flight...
was made by Alcock and Brown
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