Movies: Robert Taylor

  • 1945
    Primary Flight Training: Landings

    Primary Flight Training: Landings (1945)

    Primary Flight Training: Landings

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    In this government documentary short film, a Navy lieutenant explains the proper procedures for standard "stall" landings. Illustrating the nose-up attitude of a proper landing by means of footage of birds landing in a similar attitude, the instructo...

    Primary Flight Training: Landings
  • 1945
    Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1

    Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 (1945)

    Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1

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    In this government documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, pilot trainees are instructed in the basics of take-off preparation, including the plane captain's inspection and the checklists of notations from prior flights of the same aircraft. Instru...

    Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
  • 1945
    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 (1945)

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1

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    In this documentary short film from the U.S. Navy, a naval flight instructor demonstrates to a pair of cadet pilot trainees the proper means of maintaining stable flight without danger of stalling. He explains the principles of lift versus weight, an...

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
  • 1945
    Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1

    Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 (1945)

    Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1

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    This documentary short film is one of a series of U.S. Navy training films instructing new pilots on flight technique. In this, an instructor lectures (with live and animated film footage) pilot trainees on the initial techniques of maintaining prope...

    Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
  • 1945
    Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2

    Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 (1945)

    Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2

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    In this continuation of a prior government documentary short film, a pilot trainee continues his first flight instruction. His instructor demonstrates the use of ailerons, elevators, and rudder to control the plane in banks and turns, and illustrates...

    Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
  • 1950
    The Fighting Lady's Family

    The Fighting Lady's Family (1950)

    The Fighting Lady's Family

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    In this documentary short film, a link is described between the U.S. Navy forces of World War II and the advance Navy of 1950. After illustrating the work of the Navy in winning the Second World War, the film demonstrates how peacetime brought new ex...

    The Fighting Lady's Family
  • 1945
    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 (1945)

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2

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    In this documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, proper spin and stall techniques for pilot trainees are explored. After Cadet McDribble nearly collides with a squadron of Navy planes because he has practiced spins through clouds, Lt. Taylor shows h...

    Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2