UNLESS YOU FLY WITH SAFETY

Format: 16mm

Description: Unless You Fly With Safety is a short U.S. Air Forces film that stresses the importance of safe flying. The film opens with a biplane flying over trees and then alongside another plane. Footage shows the valley the planes are flying over, with fields and farmhouses. The plane flies just over a car on a highway (02:04), causing the car to swerve off the road. The pilot skims right over a young woman outside working in a garden. The pilot goes to fly just above the woman’s house on his return, but he crashes the plane into the front of a barn (03:42). An Army Air Forces officer, "Joe," stands at the gates of "Pilot Heaven" with St. Peter (04:20). Joe is shown walking across a field and through trees, then down to a Lockheed P-38 Lightning (05:45). The film shows the pilots in "Pilot Heaven," chanting "never stretch a glide" (06:39). A pilot sits in the cockpit as his plane rolls on a runway after landing (07:26). The film shows a plane flying in bad weather. A pilot flies a biplane at low altitude (08:46). A squadron of what appears to be Curtiss P-36 Hawks fly in the air (09:19). A bomber (possibly a Boeing XB-15) crashes into a forest (09:34). Joe climbs into the P-38 and takes off, concluding the film.

Transcription

well well HP spots a friend of his flying at l1 you [Music] now he's going to pay his salary turn visit justice T demoulas [Music] look at that HP has quite a sense of humor how to win friends and influence Parliament even astride now riding that Bronco [Music] [Music] and he's just got the big audience there will now be a brief pause while HD make up his mind what to do next school nurse S is done a nice flip over and he got his back again ah high tension wires agencies favorite outdoors [Music] why'd you make a boat for the voting well hold on your horseshoe HP gonna close call yup he's headin for that Highway he sees a sucker down there driving a car he's going to get that fittest a few thrills [Music] HP can do better than that so he's going to practice up by riding down the fence flipping those hills oh we get it that's where HP's pyramid you come here we go we go [Music] and she seems mighty proud of her hero and now back to his normal position upside down and touching things off with a nice small roll of course it's just possible that HP is showing off the girlfriend is all the flutters HP flies through the air with the greatest of ease [Music] but he's a great boy for building the loop no he's going to come back diving on the road too bad he had a bagful of luck but luck is precious stuff you've got to use it sparingly an HP show-off was a great pilot yeah he was he didn't have a chance peak doing acrobatics at low altitude is of fools business it is now 1,300 1,300 not that anybody's going anyplace well I'm going somewhere I'm Way past due now going to be getting back hate admitted Joe but I'm all steamed up about this safety business I hope a lot of fun so long people Oh Joe aren't you forgetting oh yeah sorry I almost forgot thank you I wish we can get your brand up here but deliveries prior to it well I'll be shoving off seongjo oh don't forget my housing problem I keep after those pilots [Music] you [Music] now let's tell us let's face it this is our business safety in flying that's what we've got to concentrate on every second we're in that plane ok ok so let's get on that beam and remember remember your checklist don't touch that throttle until you've checked every item and form one read it twice like a love letter and you won't find yourself taking a dive for that April now Bob stretching a glide the fellas up in pilots heaven feel this way above my head high era stretches I yell at the Golden Rule never stretch a glide and before I forget mister oil temperature gauge remember him that fell over the last word never take off on a cold day until I'm plenty warmed up take the hint fellas learn and live on the matter of damage jib clean always reported if your landing gear is haywire reported at once to operations officers don't do a McGuire and sabotage your best friend carelessness is sabotage negligence is sabotage in war there's only one place for you to be on your toes remember that when you make a landing it's alright to relax but remember as long as the wheels are turning you're still flying that plane remember pilot nonchalant now listen to him you haven't made a landing until a wheel seats rolling your job is to kill the enemy not yourself if you want to be among the living watch every instrument every gauge your carburetor gauge check it constantly the bow ties up and here's something else the Airways bulletin board good pilots remember others to stay alive you've got to act alive don't carry your daydreams into the cockpit no one but a dope dope salt like Joe pilot with a silly puss dreaming about last night's state you do a lot of things like forgetting to lower your landing gear learn and live if you don't you won't and you want to fly into bad weather against orders if you can't fly on instruments remember always remember one of the most fundamental rules of safety if you see the weather closing in then make a 180 degree turn and head back and we go all the way back to Adam and Eve for this one forbidden fruit but the pilots forbidden fruit is not an apple it's acrobatics at low altitude remember HP show off the pilot that does anything for a thrill including breaking his own skull just remember that if you're thinking about acrobatics at low altitude now all you fellows with propellers in your pants don't think that what you've just seen doesn't apply to you because it does everyone there's no rule in flying safety that you can ignore here's what your commanding general has disabled pilots and aircraft never seen over Burma or Lynn or Bataan are daily being lost unfired guns unused bomb racks these are being lost not an enemy lands but in the quiet American countryside [Applause] pilots crews and airplanes must be delivered to battle not left in smoking heaps and cornfields from California to Maine yes that's the way our commanding general puts it and he means it the responsibility is yours ply with safety that's your number one job fly with safety remember do it [Music] 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