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What's on this DVD;  Grandpa Pettibone - 16 US Navy Aviation Training Film Cartoons

16 Very RARE Navy training films in cartoon format by Grandpa Pettibone. On topics like Flight Safety, Crashes, Weather, Carrier Landings, Disorientation on in flight and more.

This is a very rare collection of 16 film cartoons by the US Navy. In 1943 along, The Navy had 20,000 Accidents!!! That's 20K!! in 1 year!! Most of it was due to Pilot Error, so the Navy came out with these "Flight Safety Cartoons" to help cut down on these accidents.

In 1943, Lt. Robert Osborn, in collaboration with Commander Seth Warner, created the “sage of safety” character for a column in the BUAER News Letter produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics to address the increasing aircraft mishap rate. Osborn’s illustrations commingled with Warner’s narrative accounts of aircraft accidents. Following a description of a mishap, the old curmudgeon aviator railed at young fliers for making stupid mistakes. More than one aviator caught in a pinch in the sky has suddenly remembered a timely pearl of wisdom from Gramps that helped the flier avoid a costly- and perhaps fatal-error. The main character is Grampa Pettibone and he is constantly Griping about Navy pilots who are making too many simple mistakes!!!. Very, very, RARE. In the 5 yrs I've been looking at old films, I have never seen this series for sale. Ever. More on Grampa Pettibone Series. We hope you'll enjoy!

1st Film; "US Navy Crashes". This is a collection of film clips on carrier and WW2 naval crashes, about 7 min's worth of F4U's, F4Fs and F6F crash landing in the sea, on the deck of a carrier, on land. etc. Very fascinating and we home you will enjoy this footage. Films like this is what helps to make our DVD's different and we hope, worth you money. Runtime 6:52 Min's

2nd Film; "WW2 Carrier Accidents". This is a collection of 2 Navy Cartoons about Carrier Landings. the 1st is called "After the Cut". It is B/W film about Navy pilots needing to fly the airplane all the way down to the carrier. Must pay attention!! The second film is in color and is about pilots needing to pay attention the LSO. "Landing Signal Officer". Sometimes pilots don't listen to him and accidents come about because of this! Runtime 13:35 Min's

3rd Film; "Pilot Error". This 5 cartoon films and Grandpa Pettibone is not happy!!! The 1st film is "Fuel Tank Selection". To many accidents crashes were caused by the pilot not keeping an eye on the fuel selector. 2nd, Join-Up Collisions. 3rd, "Idle Mixture Check". This film is sponsored by AC and Champ. The problem here is a pilot fouls the sparkplugs buy not getting the mixture right. 4th Film, "Flathatting". This is were an good pilot gets bored and decides to Hotdog his airplane at low levels. Buzzing cows, people, etc. Bad idea and you get washed out for this. 5th film, "Landing Accidents". This about NOT USING YOUR CHECK LIST!!  IE, a pilot lands with his wheels up" OUCH!! The Admiral was not happy! Runtime 24:56 Min's

4th Film; "Weather and Disorientation". This is 5 films. 1st called "Marginal Weather Accidents". This where a pilot makes the right decision to turn around even though is other inner-self wanted to fly on and crash of course. 2nd is called "Disorientation Crashes". This film shows the need to pay attention to your instruments before and when you get disoriented. Great Idea. 3rd film, "Taxiing Accidents", 4:40 min's. 4th, "Accident Prevention". This is a color film and teaches to pay attention to detail, if you want to stay alive. 5th film, "Peril" or "Accidents resulting from unfamiliarity in Aircraft". Runtime 25:26 Min's

5th Film; "Simulated Combat Accidents". This is 2 films. The 1st film is called Simulated Combat Accidents" and it talks about Pilots pretending to attack a fellow aviator, but losses perspective and crashes into each other in the process. 2nd film is called "Sensation". Very close to Disorientation, but this one is in color. Runtime 11:06 Min's

6th Film; "Dive Bomber and Bailouts". This 2 films. 1st is called, "He ignored his Altimeter". This story is about a very good SB2C Dive bomber pilot that focused so much on the bombing sight that he flew his plane into the ground. 2nd film is called, Bailing Out". This is about a pilot learning how to bail out of a F4U. He must remember all of the details if he wants to live. Runtime 13:39 Min's

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