U.S. NAVY PILOT TRAINING CARTOON
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Description: Dating to the immediate post-WWII period, this U.S. Navy cartoon "Collisions Occurring During Simulated Combat" was likely made by the UPA Studio. The cartoon features three fatal incidents in which naval aviators broke the rules and ended up in mid-air collisions. The stories are contrasted against three tactical tales of romance involving various aviators and a certain attractive young woman. The first incident shown involves a training flight in which two pilots make an unplanned, unauthorized simulated attack on a PB4Y Privateer. The wingmen lose track of each other and are killed when their planes collide. At 2:30, a group of Bearcats are shown in mock fighter director flight, and one pilot makes a fatal positioning mistake resulting in a midair collision. At 3:48, two aircraft in mock dogfight end up colliding in mid-air after pressing their attacks too vigorously. The film ends with a review of established Navy doctrine against unauthorized simulated combat. This cartoon draws from the contemporaneous work of Lt. Robert Osborn, who created a character known as Grampaw Pettibone in 1943 to enliven Navy safety tips for a Bureau of Aeronautics newsletter. Osborn was also the creator of more than 2,000 “Dilbert the Pilot'' and “Spoiler the Mechanic” posters, which delivered helpful reminders to US pilots of WWII.
Complete Record: Dating to the immediate post-WWII period, this U.S. Navy cartoon "Collisions Occurring During Simulated Combat" was likely made by the UPA Studio. The cartoon features three fatal incidents in which naval aviators broke the rules and ended up in mid-air collisions. The stories are contrasted against three tactical tales of romance involving various aviators and a certain attractive young woman. The first incident shown involves a training flight in which two pilots make an unplanned, unauthorized simulated attack on a PB4Y Privateer. The wingmen lose track of each other and are killed when their planes collide. At 2:30, a group of Bearcats are shown in mock fighter director flight, and one pilot makes a fatal positioning mistake resulting in a midair collision. At 3:48, two aircraft in mock dogfight end up colliding in mid-air after pressing their attacks too vigorously. The film ends with a review of established Navy doctrine against unauthorized simulated combat. This cartoon draws from the contemporaneous work of Lt. Robert Osborn, who created a character known as Grampaw Pettibone in 1943 to enliven Navy safety tips for a Bureau of Aeronautics newsletter. Osborn was also the creator of more than 2,000 “Dilbert the Pilot'' and “Spoiler the Mechanic” posters, which delivered helpful reminders to US pilots of WWII.
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[Music] betsy was the prettiest girl in pensacola i had my eye on her from the day i checked in but trouble was she couldn't see me for sour raffle i guess she was just too busy dick was a slingshot artist a bit on the aggressive side but maybe i was just prejudiced she liked him until he committed a grave error [Music] unauthorized simulated combat if ticket can find his blunders to the parlor he would have recovered there being other mermaids in the sea around pensacola but he made the same mistake in the air practicing section tactics with his wingman he spotted a pb4y below and ahead increased power and started a shallow climbing turn to the left while his wingman crossed under and started a sharp diving turn for a high side gunnery run on the private privateer dick also pushed over in an attack run neither he nor his wingman knew what the other plan would do [Music] since the privateer was subject to a surprise attack there was no predicting its action dick's plane flew through the slipstream of the pb4y and a second later collided with his wingman unauthorized simulated combat after a while i went to see betsy and again i was just in time to be too late [Music] alby was smooth sharp and vigorous perhaps a bit too vigorous for one night at the officers club he made an error in [Music] defensive weave tactic this was not unusual for albie he'd done it before and a few days later he did it again in a fighter director flight alby was wingman to the division leader of four bearcats making up the attack group the fifth plane acted as bogey when the bogie attacked the leader went into a defensive weave but alby full of push and vigor and antenna on the bogey failed to follow his leader ignored the other section and plowed into the other wing neither pilot survived [Music] after the second accident let's see was a jinx to the sports of the face i suppose they didn't really believe what they said but who wants to flirt with a purple heart everybody's shunned everybody with too exceptional i was one of them still pitching and the other was dale she chose dale maybe he reminded her of dick or albie he certainly reminded me of them with a star-spangled manner one night he sparkled too brightly and pressed home the attack too vigorously it took more than a moonlight dip to clear the lieutenant's head a week later in a scheduled combat tactics flight dale had the altitude advantage he and his adversary made several scissoring turns trying to get on the tail of the other gradually both planes reached the same level and the two pilots faced each other neither was willing to lose the advantage by breaking away both pilots had pressed home the attack too vigorously for the last time no hits no runs three errors these men were killed because they failed to follow established doctrine [Music] flyers know all about unauthorized simulated combat and errors in defensive tactics and pressing home the attack too vigorously but explaining them to betsy was another thing took a long time before she understood before she consented to marry a navy man well we're still married i'm still flying it's simply a matter of following established doctrine
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