Woodland High School Football: Woodland vs. Sacramento

Description: This film tells the story of research experiments in the adaptation of both fixed wing and rotary aircraft for use in wildland firefighting from the year 1952 to the early 1960s. It includes rare footage from the earliest "proof of concept" DC-7 air tanker test drops sponsored by LA County Fire Department in 1953; Major Schrader's dropping mechanism developed at El Toro Marine Base in 1954; tests with helicopters and air tankers at the multi-agency FIRESTOP exercise in 1954 at Camp Pendleton; the development of various tools for use with small helicopters; footage from drop tests of airtankers made at Willows, Santa Ana and Ramona from 1955-59 and tests made with Marine helitankers at the Santa Ana Marine Base air facility. The film concludes with the application of these tools in fire control work.