Ferry pilot (1941 film)

[sunny91]

This is a 1941 movie about the ferry pilots. It is a sample of the movie..
the total movie is 895 megs and it is for 1:30 min. .avi

Sunny

[Wildcat]

Cool, thanks Sunny!

[Royzee617]

Nice! Where's the full version to be had?

[ccheese]

Hmmmmm.... I don't seem to recall that one .....

Charles

[Royzee617]

Watched it today, has it's moments but how did they survive the war with all that pipe-smoking. Some jiggery pokery as they interweave stock footage of BB vintage with gals and chaps pretending to gawp at Spitfires etc zooming about. There's one puzzling sequence where a Spitfire zooms around in the kind of manner that sprog in the BoB movie got caned for. It emits puffs of dirty smoke every now and again then he comes back down and goes straight into an inverted pass, thought he was about to do a bunt but rolled out of it. Nice footage of Wimpeys, a Hurri with ferry tanks, various Spits, Ansons, Hudson (?). Then this guy gets into a Whitley after telling this other chap he'd never flown one before... almost believable.

[hondac200]

Originally Posted by Royzee617

Watched it today, has it's moments but how did they survive the war with all that pipe-smoking. Some jiggery pokery as they interweave stock footage of BB vintage with gals and chaps pretending to gawp at Spitfires etc zooming about. There's one puzzling sequence where a Spitfire zooms around in the kind of manner that sprog in the BoB movie got caned for. It emits puffs of dirty smoke every now and again then he comes back down and goes straight into an inverted pass, thought he was about to do a bunt but rolled out of it. Nice footage of Wimpeys, a Hurri with ferry tanks, various Spits, Ansons, Hudson (?). Then this guy gets into a Whitley after telling this other chap he'd never flown one before... almost believable.

Royzee617,
The scene of which you speak with the Spitfire zooming around, etc., is actual footage of Alex Henshaw, Supermarines Chief Test Pilot putting on one of his displays which were usually for dignitaries, etc. during the war. He gives a good account of those displays in his book, "Sigh for a Merlin" which is quite a good read. Sometimes I wonder how he survived his occupation!

[Old Wizard]

Originally Posted by Royzee617

Watched it today, has it's moments but how did they survive the war with all that pipe-smoking. Some jiggery pokery as they interweave stock footage of BB vintage with gals and chaps pretending to gawp at Spitfires etc zooming about. There's one puzzling sequence where a Spitfire zooms around in the kind of manner that sprog in the BoB movie got caned for. It emits puffs of dirty smoke every now and again then he comes back down and goes straight into an inverted pass, thought he was about to do a bunt but rolled out of it. Nice footage of Wimpeys, a Hurri with ferry tanks, various Spits, Ansons, Hudson (?). Then this guy gets into a Whitley after telling this other chap he'd never flown one before... almost believable.

There's a documentary about the women ferry pilots in GB during the war and one of the ladies mentioned flying a new type for the first time. She said that all they did was sit in the plane with the manual to get things figured out and then off they went, manual in hand.
There were many brave [and adventurous] women on both sides of the Atlantic that ferried everything from trainers to bombers and some lost their lives doing it.

[pbfoot]

They has a book called the Ferry Pilots Notes described as a blue pocket book with notes on all the aircraft they flew .The one book had all the notes on the various aircraft from start up to shut down

[VERSUCH]

VERY VERY GOOD
tHANKS SUNNY

[sunny91]

I have the full movie, I will post later..

Sunny

[sunny91]

I have the full movie, It is in 10 parts, each part can be view..

Sunny