| Lockheed P-38 Lightning: Flight Characteristics (1943) Lockheed's top WW2 test pilots do the check out on this very thorough pilot training video.
Demonstrates precautions and techniques for taking off, flying, and landing, showing in detail how controls and apparatus should be manipulated. Explains how to take off and fly with only one engine, and shows how to bail out. WWII Lockheed promotional film (1940) This Lockheed promotional film hits the propaganda points hard, but makes up for it with the rare footage of Lockheed factory assembly lines. There is also some footage of the Wright brothers, Lindbergh and his wife, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, and others.
In addition to the great factory footage, there is also an explanation of how they used test pilots to try out their newest inventions, and to set records for speed. |