Us Test Pilot At Work Lner (1938)

Titles read: “US TEST PILOT AT WORK“. United States of America. Brief shots of men working on new war planes for the United States Navy in a hangar at the Drummond (Grummond?) Aircraft Corporation. A new biplane is wheeled out of the hangar and test pilot Lee Gelback gets in to give it a trial flight. If the wings stay on at a dive 500 miles an hour the plane is ok for the government. He fits a cartridge fired by an electric charge into the plane to start it up and takes off. Several shots of the plane in flight. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont Br