New Gliders For Troop Transport Pass Army Test

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Synopsis: Cargo and transport gliders proving their efficiency as new swift silent weapons of invasion...(read more)

Date: 1943
Duration: 00:02:10
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
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New Gliders For Troop Transport Pass Army Test

The genius of the American automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, turns to the mass production of gliders. Giant Army transport gliders made almost entirely of spruce and plywood. Wings are fitted as the finished ships move along an assembly line that never stops.

Pilots to man the new silent fleets of invasion craft are constantly training. Each glider built to carry a striking force of men fully equipped for battle. The nose lifts up and a scout car (Jeep) complete with crew is taken aboard.

Towed by a transport plane the glider goes aloft. Three thousand pounds of motorless aircraft taking to the sky on its own wings. A ship nearly as large as a medium bomber. A pilot releases his line cutting loose from the tow plane and he's on his own.

Down to earth for a perfect three point landing. Cargo and transport gliders proving their efficiency as new swift silent weapons of invasion.

01:05:10:12

Ford Motor Company's glider manufacturing defense plant at Kingsford Michigan, also referred to as the Iron Mountain Plant.

01:05:38:00

Line of Waco CG-4 Gliders after assembly.

01:05:57:03

Jeep (Scout Car) is loaded into Waco CG-4 glider.

01:06:11:03

Transport plane takes off pulling a glider.

01:06:46;03

Glider landing from glider pilot point-of-view (pov)