1945 Freeman Field air show

[Richard Cranium]

The film is poor quality, but there are some pix of rare aircraft...

History as many have not seen it. Spectacular 10.5 minute piece of film...

Some fantastic old aircraft here, including a V-1 and V-2, an ME-163 Komet and, I think, a "skip bomb" (that large, white cylinder at the right base of the V-2) that was used to destroy the Ruhr dams. The general at the end is, I believe Hap Arnold.

Nazi Jets....Nazi Helicopters. Italian fighters. Flying JU-88's. Fascinating footage of captured weapons and Axis aircraft at a 1945 air show at Freeman Field in Seymour, Indiana. This footage is ONLY four months after the German surrender, and just one month after the Japanese surrender!



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[Budnicks]

The film is poor quality, but there are some pix of rare aircraft...

History as many have not seen it. Spectacular 10.5 minute piece of film...

Some fantastic old aircraft here, including a V-1 and V-2, an ME-163 Komet and, I think, a "skip bomb" (that large, white cylinder at the right base of the V-2) that was used to destroy the Ruhr dams. The general at the end is, I believe Hap Arnold.

Nazi Jets....Nazi Helicopters. Italian fighters. Flying JU-88's. Fascinating footage of captured weapons and Axis aircraft at a 1945 air show at Freeman Field in Seymour, Indiana. This footage is ONLY four months after the German surrender, and just one month after the Japanese surrender!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1723870789084

that is cool I wish they would put subtitles telling what each plane is & where it's from etc. so I know what I'm looking at, I'm not a big plane buff but love seeing that stuff... great tunes too, It makes me remember my mother {she died about 10 years ago} she use to listen to allot of the big band era music, she was a big band musician when she was a young girl in the 50's.... Great stuff RC/DH

 

[Bruzilla]

That's definitely not Hap Arnold. I think it was Omar Bradley.

I'm amazed at how identical the take off roll of the B-29 was to that of a B-52.

Watching that footage reminded me of an airshow we did at HMS Seahawk in southern England back in 1982. Our P-3C Orion was parked on a side strip off the taxiway, like a U shape lane that was used to stage aircraft. We had a plane ahead of us and another behind us. The ground crew towed the plane behind us out first and said they would get the plane ahead of us moved so we could taxi. We told them not to worry about it. The P-3C is one of the few planes that have reversible pitch propellers, so we had everyone aboard come up to the front of the plane to keep the nose wheel down, then the pilots reversed pitch on the props and we backed our plane down the ramp, turned, and ended up on the taxiway just as slick as someone backing out of their garage. All the ground crew guys started yipping and hollering because they had never seen a plane taxi backwards before.