THE NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION STORY 1950s PROMOTIONAL FILM 77794
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Made in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this promotional film for North American Aviation is a great historical document of the history of mass produced airplanes used mostly for warring efforts of the United States, told from the perspective of one of the largest airplane manufacturers in the world. It is filled with historic footage of various types of World War II fighter planes, surveillance planes, bombers and fighter jets. Spectacular air battle scenes from World War II and the Korean conflict are scattered throughout this film. Lots of explosions and rockets being fired as well as scientists pointing at blackboards and rolled out maps while smoking pipes.
Time code 1:41 shows an AT6 plane being rolled down a residential street. Time code 2:39 features a flying shot of an observation plane. Time code 5:07 a montage of shots of the U.S. Capital building in Washington DC. Time code 5:43 shows a montage of shots of an assembly line of planes at North American
Time code 6:10 - Historic footage of Jimmy Dolittle’s squadron attacking Japan. The first such attack on Japanese soil in nearly 2,000 years. Time code 10:50 begins a montage of historic air battles, many bombs dropping, machine guns firing that goes on for over 5 minutes featuring the fabled P51 Mustang attack planes.
At time code 15.57 close up on a jet engine being fired up in the lab followed by montages of jets flying, taking off and landing, refueling in the sky and a montage of Sable jet fighters in battle.
Time code 28:19 begins a segment on Super Sonic flight featuring the F-100 doing barrel rolls and formation flying.
From time code 30:44 to the end of the film, there is a series of vignettes about the development of nuclear technology for power plants and medical reactors.
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer. Through a series of mergers and sales, North American Aviation became part of North American Rockwell which became Rockwell International and is now part of Boeing.
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Back in the late 1950's when I was about 5 years old my father took me to a company Christmas party and I won a plastic model of an F-100 that he put together for me. Then in the late 1970's I was working on F-100's in the Air National Guard and I got two rides in the back seat of an F-100, the same airplane that I had a model of when I was just a little kid.
... and what it was like?
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv What was what like? The Christmas party or the two rides in the F-100?
Thank you for you service.
When I moved to the San Fernando valley in the mid fifties, I was seven years old and the CA. ANG were still flying out of van Nuys with the F-86. this was the first jet aircraft that I saw up close and it will always be my favorite. The ANG were still doing gun testing and calibration at the old weapons bunker at Roscoe & Havenhurst, and the noise of the guns would startle the whole area so much that they had to give it up soon after. When I was older, you could go in there and retrieve .50 Cal slugs. I had a whole collection of them.
What a cool program!!! The scenes in here are like GOLD!!!! One of NAA's test pilots, a man named Bob Hoover, lived in an area not far from where I Grew-up... He lived in Palos Verdes estates, Ca. I lived in Torrance, Ca. At that time... Bob Hoover would perform in numerous air shows and aviation events in the P-51 and the Shrike Aero Commander.. Torrance Airport is the location where my family would go, to see him and other aviators perform... Bob was amazing!!! This company was also amazing... A source of tremendous pride for the U.S. ... Thank you for posting this great video!!!
At 14:30 the narrator is talking about how the Germans were able to use jets and that the P-51 had some success in combating them. However, it is the ME-163 Komet rocket plane, not the ME-262 that is shown.
And at 22:45 they don't give credit to the Germans for swept wing technology.
I really love what North American Aviation accomplished in it's entirety, especially with the P51. Their manufacturing methods are legendary!
I also love NA planes, but my two favorites are the F-86D Sabre Dog and the XB-70 Valkyrie.
instablaster...
IMO, the P-51 was the most beautiful war bird of WWII.
I am a great fan of American aviation, the vast amount of type’s produced and their quality is, in my eyes 👀, legendary. However, to say that the British needed a fighter capable of beating anything in the sky went a bit to far, we already had two legendary fighters that could defeat any aircraft the axis forces had, those being the Hurricanes and Spitfires of RAF Fighter Command, with British and commonwealth manufacturers going on to produce numerous other excellent aircraft, the Mosquito,Typhoon & Tempest, to name just three out of many, the P-51 and other American aircraft were bought by the British and commonwealth forces because America had the capacity to make enough aircraft to supply us because our capacity was not enough to be self sufficient. The P-51 was a brilliant aircraft, once it was fitted with a Merlin engine.
My dad worked at the Columbus Oh plant, From 42, when it was Curtiss Wright, then when it was NAA all thru Korea and till he died at his Bench in 63 during Vietnam.
My Grandpa worked at NAA/Rockwell from 1947-1981 (El Segundo/Palmdale).He was a flight-line electrical troubleshooter. He could work an ammeter FASTER than I could break wind.
No mention of fitting the Merlin engine fitted to the P51 ,which made a average plane one of the greats
Funny, with that great Merlin engine, the P-51 could fly higher, faster and farther than the Spitfire. You could say we Yanks gave Britain a plane that was worthy of this great engine. Or you could say Britain gave us an engine that made the P-51 the undisputed air-superiority fighter of the war. We were and are still allies, so we share our good stuff with each other for our mutual benefit.
Jay, it's a documentary on North American Aviation, not the P-51 Mustang. Can't mention everything; and besides which the P-82 Twin Mustang was a dog with the Merlins; retrofitted with the original Allison it became a thoroughbred.
@@joseftrumpeldor6240 ??????? How could two vastly superior engines fail and two vastly inferior engines succeed? 2 Allison’s are better than 2 Merlins? I call bullshit.
@@glornporklongton7338 it’s called turbocharging the Allisons. Turbocharged Allison engines also powered the legendary P-38, and we all know just how amazingly it did.
The brits... it always has to be about Britain right? This is a film about a company not one aircraft idiot.
As an employee at LAX division when the name became North American Rockwell, then Rockwell Intl. it wasted away under bad management .
Seeing so many F86s in formation at beginning of this film, wow, they were cranking these things out like GM cranking out Chevys. I never understood that "FU" designation number and why they didn't think of it much. Maybe like back in the days when it was common to see car license plate numbers with "WTF."
Definitely a great video... The P-51 and so many other NAA designs were awesome... So many of the NAA accomplishments became known for helping to restore freedom to the NATO countries... It is important for our current generation, to know how important this goal of keeping freedom alive for the free world has become...Freedom isn't free, it is maintained within the minds and hearts of those who LOVE it, and fought for-against those who want to remove it....
Cant recall the museum I saw the graphic, but I was surprised to learn North American produced the most aircraft during WW2.
By the 10’s of thousands
I find it interesting that several shots of Mustangs and Texans supposedly during WWII show the Air Force insignia with the red lengthwise bars. This is obviously footage shot after the war and around 1947 or later. The red stripe on the white bars didn't show up until nine months before the official formation of the United States Air Force in 1947.
how about the reversed footage of Doolittle's B-25s? Some shots have HORNET'S island on the port side. Ooookkkaaayyy.
@@lancejohnson1406 that is an interesting observation!!! Sometimes, in stock photos and footage, the images get reversed when the original form has been changed, like when an enlargement or other form of a sizing modification has been made... It reminds me of a COLUMBO episode called 'Negative Reaction' where Lt. Columbo used that reversed image effect to compell the suspect (Dick Vac Dyke) into INADVERTANTLY positively identifying himself as the person who murdered the victim. Check it out, when You have a chance!!!
@Matt Brandon, That is very interesting!!! Until now, I was not aware of that...
It's called stock footage and it's used on almost all documentaries and even on TV shows, it's an industry life long practice.
@@rayjames6096 nice of you to doucheily point out the fact that stock is a thing while they were talking specifically about the footage getting reversed.
I worked for Lockheed Burbank in the Fifties and we had the Skunk Works. We built Constellations and developed the C130 Hercules, I don't know what Lockheed built during WWII, but stealth and supersonic planes were on the drawing board.
Kelly Johnson one of the greatest aviation minds....Respect Sir...RIP
I forgot to include the F-104 Star Fighter, which was essentially a flying jet engine.
How could you forget the P-38 Lightning?!
@@dougball328 P-38 was before my time, but it was my favorite plane when I was a kid in WWII.
That jet sure did use every foot of that deck on takeoff. I wonder what was going through that pilot’s mind at rotation. 😁
Does it have an ejection seat?!!?
They forgot to mention that the North American Aviation Design Bureau was lead by a German-American man by the name of James H. Kindleberger. He lead the company to great financial success, and had designed many iconic American aircraft of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
B-25 Mitchell bomber, P-51 Mustang, F-86 Sabre and the F-100 Phantom were just a few examples of aircraft single handedly designed by James H. Kindleberger.
It turns out the Anglo-American could not compete against German designers, and had to use a German from America to beat the Germans in Germany.
The F100 wasn't the Phantom. It was the Super Sabre. But a great you made there!
*Thanks for vid, very informative!!*
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My dad worked NAA in Columbus, later Rockwell Aviation.
NA rode the success of the P-51 all the way through the F-100 and then completely lost their game...while P-51s were still front-line aircraft in 3rd World countries. Look up "Soccer War" to see how things turned out in a Mustang vs. Corsair one-on-one.
4:09 My relatives would have been surprised at this statement.
That is the plane they modify and use to replace the Japanese zero in all the movies looks a lot like one
Late 1950's. Early short fin F 100 shown, no mention of the Vigilante, so dates to 1957-1960 I would say
0:18 How often do we have a chance to see a 21 airplane formation?
NAA's two most recognized aircraft were the P-51 Mustang and the F-86 Saber.
@Stanley Yager, YES, and maybe the Command modules for the Apollo program, the B-25's , the X-15 program, the AT-6's, the F-100's, the Sea Fury's, the Space Shuttle program, the B-1 bombers, the OV-10 Broncos, the Saberliners, the T-2 Buckeyes, the Aero Commander Shrikes... NAA & Rockwell Intl. Designed and produced several different aircraft & space vehicles & missiles... We now need more companies like them...
Glad I served 16 years in the USAF, crew chief, RIO, areo repair, on and on. Busy 16 years.
That has got to be Chet Huntley narrating most of the film.
Chet Huntley! Aw, RIGHT!
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14:33 Me-163 "Swallow" Rocket powered fighter
The b-25 is my favorite
All it takes is one bad deal on the scale that North American was at the time of their closure, to ruin a legendary aviation company. I guess they got too big and too dependent on government contracts on a big scale. Once one project dried up there was no escaping the downward spiral...
It was not until they mated the P51 with Roll Royce Merlin engine that the 'stang had the berlin range
the 'na34' looks suspiciously similar to the Mitchell bomber. Coincidence or ancestry?
Guess who made the Mitchell bomber? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell
Team work
Anybody pick up on the electronics part in this video back in the 50's no telling what they got today .
22:26 No mention that swept wings were a German idea.
Actually, swept wing designs date back to the dawn of aviation history. While it is true that the Germans used swept wings in an effort to reduce drag, a swept-wing tail-less glider was flown in 1908 in England, and John William Dunne built a series of swept wing aircraft prior to 1914.
RonJohn63 swept wings were around since the dawn of aviation
I wish I had the links to prove what I'm saying, but... I read Messerschmitt's decision for the 262 to have swept wings was purely accidental. Their original jet didn't work out well and it's replacement was heavier. They swept the wings back to adjust the planes center of gravity for the heavier engine. It's improved performance was an only marginally understood bonus.
@@PeriscopeFilm The idea may have been around, but the realization that it would delay compressiblity effects is what the Germans discovered. The Me-262 was swept for this reason.
14:03....that guy crashed thw top of the three????
Good narrators know when to talk and when NOT TO!
They had a brilliant history. What happened?
Hold on ..dude flew into a tree @14:04
Thank you American taxpayers for making this company. Thank me for my service.
11:11 мин.
So sad that this company was out of contracts and got swallowed up.
Umm, the P51 was a POS until they swapped the pathetic Allison engine for the Rolls Royce Merlin......
Heyy now
Merlin built by Packard.
F100...not a fighter
It was originally designed as a fighter interceptor intended to shoot down enemy bombers and attain air superiority. Later on it was used as a tactical bomber. I flew in F-100's a few times when I was in the Air National Guard. On one flight we were practice dogfighting against an F-15 and the Super Sabre I was in shot down the F-15.
hello American aviation does not exist. you can prove me erroneous if you can. Are you Whiteamerienglish ? saludos Amerirepeater