Here is a SAC video. Give it time to load.
B 36 Takeoff.
Remember, “six turnin’ and four burnin”.
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2008-4-18-B-36-SAC-Video.wmv
the six props and the four jets that were hung out on the wing to help the production models get off the ground.
Worth it for the sound – six piston and four jet engines
You will also see Jimmy Stewart on the jump seat.
All the instruments and engine controls at the flight engineer station.
Also note that the copilot controls the jet engines while the flight engineer controls the pistons.
By: garryrussell - 24th January 2014 at 07:40
The bit after the clip where they decide to turn for home has stuck with me since I was a young lad in the mid sixties.
The sight of the trails as posted above, then they sweep into the turn…very impressionable
I wonder how many latter day pilots got their first inspiration from this film.
Very much a compempory promotion, it does stand as a marvellous record of those days.
Odd thread title given that 12 o’Clock High was a different film as linked above. This was called “Strategic Air Command”
By: charliehunt - 24th January 2014 at 05:29
Thanks, thawes – it was very much of its time and appropriate.
By: thawes - 23rd January 2014 at 23:44
Contrailling into the sunset – beautiful!
Charlie
The dreamy music / love theme used to accompany the aerial sequences is “The World is Mine” by long established Hollywood composer Victor Young (one of his last compositions – he died in 1956, a year after the film’s release).
By: GrahamSimons - 23rd January 2014 at 13:45
It’s a movie that is worth watching completely, even if it has got June Allyson in it!
By: charliehunt - 23rd January 2014 at 13:17
There’s one word for that. Superb!!:applause:
No Peck indeed but the music makes up for his absence!!
By: SqL Scramble. - 23rd January 2014 at 13:00
And not a Gregory Peck or a B-17 in sight . . . . .
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