UNIVERSITY OF FLYING

[Music] you [Music] England the county of Bethlehem in the side the place called Kranthi we landed and never ran the book like any other room local space to buy in the house friends I have but it's the home of the only university of its kind in the world the Empire test pilot school the best pilots from all parts of the world chosen by their governments have taken this school specialized course in test piloting design and mechanism of changing fast the world waits for signs the flying will be a safe transport and before blueprint theory can become safe practice the paper ideas have to be tested in the sky in the mess we find some of the 45 students a Dutch Army Air Force captain an English squadron leader who lost an eye and party command and a Canadian flight attendant were getting to know each other United States Army Air Force colonel was already differing partner with an English civilian pilot on the minutes of a certain aircraft these are the world's best fighters already over 40 men from the earlier courses have gone to jobs with aircraft manufacturers as staff test pilots China Canada Greece Ireland America Britain together for nearly a year and standing in the fireplace the school's commander Group captain Wilson talking with young tight-lipped and a Duke one of the team which in September 1946 broke the world speed record before that Wilson himself was the fastest man on it in 1945 he did not agree hundred and sixty miles an hour in a meteo jet plane in charge of the flying part of the course is when commander Smith joined the Air Force 12 years ago a flight commander during those hectic days of the Battle of Britain later squadron leader of Knight Titus has already put in many years instructing he's 32 years old the test pilots course takes nine months and is divided into two parts one half concentrate on finding out how the different claims handle in the air that means each student flying many kinds of aircraft under different conditions the other half is the testing of plans natural performances and measuring and recording their characteristics that means much desk work and mathematics responsible for training the students are five English staff instructors four of them take on a group of students each and put them through the flying program these are veterans lineman squadron leader have a craft as 1,000 eyes test flying experience their average age is about 33 squadron leader hablar AFC has flown 46 types of aeroplanes these men have instructed other flying men in all parts of the world then there's mr. McLaren Humphries chief technical instructor in charge of all classroom tuition he's an authority on physics aerodynamics and mathematics as 10 years experience in the test flying of aircraft it is on his groundwork that the flying instructors build their practical tuition of how to test a plane it was morning 8 o'clock and the students arrived for their lecture have a craft went off to do an experimental flight to keep up his own flying eyes the daily lecture for the students is in it so that after the desk work there is still a full day's sign because in England in the summer every daylight are the speed of an aircraft is calculated by measuring the pressure of air and here comp that was through the lecture is on the positional error test full of technical terms but to us it simply means the measurement of the error in the height and airspeed indicators which both depend on the pressure of the atmosphere for their working to measure the pressure of the atmosphere on an aircraft a tube is fixed on the outside of all things but the air that is rushing past a plan in motion is bound to disturb the ordinary atmosphere around the aircraft checking the reading on the instrument panel will always be wrong to the lecturers how wrong depends on the position of the tube the position error is established for every type of aircraft the day came when the test was to be practiced on one of the fastest planes in the world from meteors win engine jet pilot with one of the American students leftenant wollen P Smith from the United States Naval Reserve meanwhile for other students and the instructor made their way to the top of the controlled her to take their part in the test the instrument that measures the atmosphere pressure called an altimeter is placed on the control tower another altimeter is placed in the plane and it's undisturbed would read the same as the one in the controls are it won't because it's connected to them exterior tube on the plane and the rushing air will affect it the difference between the two altimeter readings is what the pilot is trying to find out so that everything else is equal the plane must fly at the same height as the observers altimeter about 50 feet above the ground along a runway pass the time [Music] [Music] pilot will fly past twice at 120 miles an hour for the slow run and then at 400 miles another a wireframe enables the observers to check that the pilot price is out in either at the correct height the middle wire is 50 feet above the ground each wire above or below represents 10 feet higher or ler and flying a jet plane 50 feet from the ground is no picnic here he comes for the first run bang on the button the next run will be at 400 miles an hour at that speed 50 feet from the run that's what I said I mean you had it [Applause] [Music] [Music] the American has brought down with him the record of the alternative readings of the different states umpf is comparable with the readings he took on the control chart the difference tells them to what extent the position of that tube allows moving air pressure at speed to interfere with the atmospheric pressure reading the degree of the inaccuracy at any given speed will be constant on the type of aircraft tested and can be allowed for on the dial readings whenever height and speed have to be quickly calculated that knowledge may save lives time passes quickly a pen feels a lot to do a lot to learn in 9 months for the 45 students April made positional anarchists June July partial crimes mescaline climbing power is different from maximum pee find the speed which gives the maximum rate of climb from Prasanna growth August stick and unstick take off that's when you know what you're flying any eye 20 30 40 in 60 who soars like a bird dealer spinning and other air over a pet the object of disgust is to find out the spinning characteristic of the plane and the best missile art recovery place in covering such as pain on application of a standard method the height large not exceed two thousand feet during the recovery the elevator and radical crow force is necessary to be less than 80 pounds in the huntsmen 50 pounds respectively now he will attack lateral instability oscillation instability find out the source of snicky ever at electric engine my aircraft straight with engine trouble now if one engine or multi-engine aircraft fails what are the immediate effects an aircraft smooth flight in the air depends on balance balance between natural forces and the forces created by the plane itself as it goes through the air if an engine fails the overall balance is affected even if the plane has other engines working this unbalance has to be corrected quick clear by the controls leftenant blue of the Chinese Air Force asks whether the air of length will always slip one way and mr. miles as the vidiian pilot from Australia wants to know if rudder and error ins alone can always keep a plane straight he already had the phenomenally high record of 15,000 flying hours is pity miles of pilot and blue as observer were dying to do an asymmetric test flight on a land there are over 40 operational switches alone on a leg and it's best to know they work before you go up it gives a routine check to the rudder and aileron controls they're going to be important on this kit [Music] the ball ends in Lancaster where's 22 times it has a wing spread of over 100 feet to an experienced pilot it's the safe carriage of the air but it's designed with four engines and if one goes out of action something is going to happen to that balance their group commander teach hammer craft has given them instructions take her up to about 4,000 feet then cut the ISIS starboard murder watch how much aileron and rudder control is necessary to keep her climbing then land with one murder dead and watch the side slip in the control tower pitch could keep in touch with the flight and have a chinwag with the control officer [Music] I want the observer to potential continued findings awaiting your decision [Music] unless director action there doesn't Sciences right [Music] observator pilot started I promoted him and it'll 6x back [Music] controller while ending with one engine 7.15 Roger [Applause] [Music] you this is the tricky to the other ground permit an imaginary [Music] perfect landing on three edges [Music] as the course progresses differences of customer language are dissolving in the mutual interest of a highly specialized branch of living these men will be the test pilots of the future they will make flying safer the use to which they're flying input for peace or war seems to depend on whether the old knowledge that walks behind our hearts can keep pace with the new knowledge which is speeding through the minds of men [Music] [Applause] [Music]