" MUSCLE POWER FOR PLANES " 1950s AIRCRAFT FOOTAGE SM-62 SNARK, F-89 SCORPION, A-3 SKYWARRIOR 44744
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- "Muscle Power for Planes" was the name of an industrial film made for the Allison Division of General Motors in 1956. Unfortunately, the film appears to be lost, but the good news is that portions of a master print survive. This excerpt from a "lab roll" shows many aircraft from the 1950's including the SM-62 Snark missile, F-89 Scorpion, A-3 Skywarrior, F3H Demo, and other aircraft.
The film opens with a Northrop SM-62 Snark intercontinental ground-launched cruise missile test launch (:12). A JATO bottle is used for launch, separation after the bottle is expended is pictured at (:26). The Northrop F-89 Scorpion (:36) flies over an unidentified mountain range. The Scorpion was the first combat aircraft armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons. It took first flight in August of 1948. Blueprints are unrolled (:45). The J-71 Axial Flow Turbojet engine follows (:57). The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior (1:21) was the largest and heaviest aircraft to operate from an aircraft carrier. It was nicknamed “Whale”. A scale model of the Martin P6M Seamaster is presented (1:28). McDonnell’s F3H Demon (1:43) was the company’s first swept wing aircraft. A good shot shows the craft from the front angle (1:48). The Demon flies over open land (1:55). Engines are pictured in the test assembly area (2:52). The Avro Type 748 (3:02) stands at the airbase. The Martin JRM Mars Seaplane (3:11) runs across the surface of the water. A close shot captures propellers in the air (3:29). At the shoreline, amphibious vehicles roll out (3:46). Foot soldiers spill out like ants (3:49). The Piasecki H-16 transporter (3:58). A scale model of the Convair C-131 Samaritan (4:58) is pictured. The heavy and notorious C-130 Hercules runs down the runway (5:42). This craft was attributed with shaping aviation history. Hercules lifts off (5:47). The McDonnell Demon reappears (5:54) bending and falling away from view. The Piasecki Transporter is also filmed again (6:03). The film concludes with the 545C Consolidated equipped with an Allison engine (6:09).
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Keep up the good work I love these videos, they remind me of my youth. I used to love training documentaries. 73
Great footage of some unusual aircraft and helicopters. The amphibious landing was really cool.
No SM-62 Snark or A-3 Skywarrior in this film. The missile at the beginning is a Martin Matador, and the aircraft @1:20 is the Skywarrior's cousin, the B-66.
Between the screaming loud turbine, and propeller blades who's tips exceeded the sound barrier, the Pogo was aptly called the demon mostly by ground crews. Sound levels nearby easily exceeded threshold of pain, sometimes even with hearing protection. Upkeep was difficult as the plane threatened to tear itself apart from all the vibrations off of the prop tips.
It was like someone said "Let's take every bad idea our engineers have come up with and put them all into one vehicle. But is has to look really freakin' cool!"
Not a Martin Mars @ 3:11 but a Convair R3Y Tradewind.
@ 4:10, Convair XFY-1 Pogo, flown by 'Skeets' Coleman.
There was a plastic model available back in the late 50s. Who produced it I don't remember, but I built one as a kid back then.
@@maynardcarmer3148 Lindberg and Aurora both produced a plastic model kit in the late 50s. The Lindberg kit was reissued in 1987 and 2007. The Aurora kit hasn't seen the light of day since the late 50s.
I think that it was the Aurora kit. Back then there were aircraft kits by Revell and Monogram, and I built a few of those, too. Ah, those were the days.
Wow, the C-130 first flew in 1954, 69 years ago.
Go turbine power!
This film and the previous one both show different clips of the same planes. Maybe one of them is outtakes from the other, edited down.
We think they were probably "reel 1" and "reel 2", with voice-over narration and music, and titles added in the final version.
Just THINK: Fighter jets were Such an improvement, over even the Mustang Plane.
Yet: ALL of the planes shown in this video were on their way to Obsolescence.