CONQUEST OF THE AIR!

la and we're off on another assignment from our news editor Cameron sound outfit ready and here we go give her the gun the editor wants air Thrills and it's up to the cameraman to deliver so Bond voyage and a happy Landing Maybe we're in the open cockpit of a big army plane at Kelly field with camera grinding away Against the Wind blast of the propellers ahead pretty but you'll pardon us hanging on to plane and camera for not being so enthusiastic no this is not the Eternal triangle but just a day's work to the news wheel cameraman this Cross May Mark the spot where we fail to spot the mark one camera full of Thrills is worth one month of grocery bills and now off to Hawaii to an air circus here they come all up and over using Yours Truly for a hurdle they clear Us by 3 fet and land safely on Waka Beach but this is only Child's Play after a big dinner of corn beef and beer the boss sends us up on this detail three Loop to loops and we imitate Old Faithful Geyser but it's all in a day's work our next assignment the International Air Races shooting the world's fastest planes if this camera can stand the pace they're off over 6 m a minute around the pylons of the race course I hope we can keep them in the picture if one of them hits this grandstand we quit here comes a record breaker major do little show a major Temple Hoff Germany and a stunt flyer after a slow barrel roll Thrills a Crowd by upside down flying 20 ft from the ground now we're detailed to a bombing plane the editor wants Thrills Thrills our Rumble seed is full of them watery Le pilot drops a few tons of steel jacketed persuaders on the target below down they go for 1,000 ft and we thank our lucky stars that we don't have to shoot a closeup of them hitting the target below there's a real Target a derel ship and at 80 mph we only miss it by 2 ft hi again boys we have to bring back a Direct Hit or else that's got it right on the nose then it slowly sinks to its final resting place still the editor isn't satisfied B Thrills the yells and we deliver a direct hit on the enemy air drone no it isn't a real war it's a mimic war in Oklahoma but more real realistic to us and a real one more direct hits these bombers are too good I hope they don't mistake this concrete Dugout we're in for an ammunition dump we fly over impassible mountain ranges the Alps the Andes and the Rockies it's all the same to us this is the summit of Mount Kenya High over the jungles and right on the equator in central Africa a beautiful close shot almost too close to be beautiful we hope this pilot brings us back alive he did Back to Honey mooner Paradise Niagara Falls USA you suffer after and so we take it and can we take it in an auto gyro over the Rapids as our camera grinds on we've got a great shot if this coffee grinder doesn't dunk Us in that whirl poool below our next assignment in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado flying below the rim playing tag with with a dangerous air currents below us is a formation of army airplanes testing the flying possibilities of this Giant's trench we've got them in the camera now for a day's rest no sir other Canyons call The Canyons of New York City no rest for the news wheel cameraman we'd like to change places with that editor right now and let him ride in this electric fan kite here's a picture for you the editor calls this a mosaic shot we shoot it through a hole in the floor of the plane landing here would be just as tough as a Grand Canyon of the Colorado there's the Empire State Building and look there's Al Smith waving his Brown Derby what eyesight if I wanted to I could lean out and shake hands with them but I don't want to 20 parachute jumpers taking off in one plane make a Snappy boys and they're off so are we with camera Crews ready to shoot the stunt from different angles 20 lives in danger the cameramen don't count ready boys Hamera there they go Daredevil's all don't worry the parachutes are guaranteed if they don't open on the way down you get your money back as a cameram men shoot from all the corners of the plane without a parachute Boom by Boys what a thrill the news wheel takes the credit and the cameraman the RIS a 50/50 proposition here's a shot at you don't like that go out and shoot yourself then we test a new idea a parachute chair just name your city and pilot delivers you Dandy another passenger gets ready to leave here he comes no old rock and chair's got him he's stuck while we hold on to a wing tip and shoot away pull a catch boy you got it and Zoe away he goes you can have my seat lady give the editor this in slow motion two at once look out look out the parachutes are catching the tail of the plane they'll be killed nope nope they're clear no this is not one of the right Brothers it's one of the wrong Brothers warming up his motor and he's off his collapsable airplane after a 10-ft start it collapses every year brings new ideas for man's flying for instance human bird after 10 years of experimenting he attempts his first flight up on the Rock are you ready go find Windmill is she comes look out is wild run another Masterpiece he winds it up and it takes off on the left side only what the the Pogo sick Express flying and landing at the same time time wo FAA sometimes we accidentally catch a serious side the crashes and here comes one now we got up at 5: in the morning to shoot this Captain Funk the French Ace wanted to be the first to fly the Atlantic look never leaves the ground his right wing collapses he can't rise just missing a half dozen newv cameramen Punk and his co-pilot leak the safety but his two mechanics were burned to death in the Blazing gasoline another peculiar plane it's like a seagull keep that camera going Joe it's a bad takeoff he's lost control he's going to crash we never know one year in Spain we were shooting a couple of Sky Riders everything looked pretty a beautiful display of the art of Sky riding near the Finish we suddenly miss one of them sensing a tragedy right before our eyes we keep shooting and sure enough it happened a nose died they couldn't come out of it and crash then came our first glider picture taken near San Francisco he started beautifully towed by an airplane keeping the connecting cable tight and everything under control oh nope I'm wrong look see him tugging frantically at the control stick it refuses to work quick someone signal the plane to come down stop him the controls are broken and the cable's going to snap keep that camera going keep it going look look there he goes and finally the closest shave we ever had it looked like a happy Landing but suddenly the pilot lost control he swerved into a nest of cameramen missing us by inches and we got the picture look out look out look out he hits a camera and another and over he goes la