FERRY PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE WWII DOCUMENTARY FILM 34560

the smoke trails which were used to see over southern England have now moved to northern France but to keep the Royal Air Force on the offensive hundreds of aircraft was patron each day between the factories the maintenance Depot's and the aerodrums the RAF can take on the Java they're too busy on active service it's done for them by the ATA Air Transport auxiliary a civilian air force of men and women operating from their own pools or stations scattered over Britain first thing every morning the central control transmits to each of the fairy pools its schedule of aircraft to be flown from in maintenance Depot's to operational aerotrevel winter b9 7:03 you've got the walbrook depart cape that seems to be all for you to death just read me back a lot will you all right here we go tomahawk P double 3/8 4/8 we Hillenburg master in 7 6 2 3 here with little Bunton para contar 3 2 1 math Edinburgh Spitfire our three for three-year lamington walbrook Spitfire our four nine two one lemon from war book good TV 79-83 war books pocket in the weather hang on the big picture is wind coming up so we make it a reasonably honest art right it'll have to pair up for this cot by George attending my leg sausage isn't there yes a hell of a big this morning as always the CEO of 15 fairy pools faced to the tough proposition he has to arrange for his 50 pilots to petty some hundreds of aircraft between aerodrome scattered all over the British Isles and here is pilots some of the most versatile to the found anywhere many of them can fly any one of 80 different types of aircraft they come not only from Britain in the Commonwealth but from all over the world they come also from every type of job salesman school master scientist advertising agent stunt pilot test pilot doctor dramatic critic in peacetime they prove there puts moths for a hobby today it's anything from Spitfires to four-engine bombers a novice here is faced with another headache the burying of his pilots a special treat of answers and civilian types of aircraft is used to carry on this aerial bus service all day long these taxi planes shuffle to and fro dropping pilots the factory up north chasing down south to pick up others and dropping them at an aerodrome in the Midlands headache number three demands the local factories for new aircraft to be connected morning what we do here today to pin him at all engine roar fell into the rocks from hello do you say Ashington to Roxboro good that's the first time you've been useful in months noon okay right hello 15 people yeah for arrogance all the bread hosts hang on a minute how do we curb so I think the best thing is to send one pilot over and design for small something to impress any importance we'll send a pilot over so if you can have really one by one starting about now is time to five right yes yes the ID poem yes it will be 25 times today hello I'm sorry the Tigers a rather a drug in the market today but I'd avoid being offed insisting on getting there hurry curtains but it's just the sort of thing the training pool might call a training all right on the heavy stuff yes and election - all right then I'll put him on his first win okay come on morning Robert what do you know about this run of the walrus I hate you going up there way why yes in the first place you have a gun defended area here you're going across it you're supposed to miss it and you're driving straight into a balloon barrage comes out of something like this what the hell ahead put them on our track they're not on mine I don't argue with balloons well we can always go around it god help you if you do rather embarrassing by the way I believe you're riding with me in the Whitley yeah from Walbrook Park Gate Way is part indeed they have thrown ground here as thick as fleas on a dog's back hello Molly and Shelton let's be still your move yeah shut the trouble hello hello attention please pilots Stewart canes and Stevens and some m51 the ferry pilots day starts easily enough does the view to admire no traffic blocks and the ataxic lanes have no meters ticking away but the work that lies ahead isn't easy every day they are flying different aircraft and no matter what the type they must be able to remember its peculiarities the difference between the Spitfire on the tomahawk the Blenheim and the Beaufighter the Sterling and the Liberator it's not pleasant to take over an aircraft you've never met before - no but it's up to you to deliver the Machine and yourself all in one piece there's another pool staffed entirely by women pilots some of the most experienced - ferrying Spitfires hurricanes and life Sanders but mostly they deliver training planes these training planes by the way require just as much skill to fly of the fastest fighters in fact once in the air these girls finish the same hazards as the men balloons bad weather conditions the difficulties of navigation without radio and it comes dead before as the chance was trade jelly popping out from behind the next cloud here's Anson double nine seven two according in at a Spitfire Factory in the Midlands Thompson tour was being dropped to pick up their first jobs I suppose you know where the balloons are well we did good that's fine would you sign here hello this is private party or maybe come in morning girls do you know Tobit better known as Alabam two Spitfires please Vera Danny what are you taking baby dolls are limited that's for sure can't hammer place he comes back again we've heard quite a bit about speed files in the states I didn't know they'd have a performance like there I paid part of it writer speaker their shoe is dignity he really knows it we're not into this schneider trophy you know okay I keep a tight harness on it see at wallbrook afternoon highs I wished I wasn't following time I sure was kinda hard to make out with just ma'am you can't use radio give Jerry a line this place is wrapped up in towns and railroad back home and Alabama we get one town a couple hundred miles of corn and cotton babies a man horse so it can fly without fear running out of land anyway oh boy you'll have one of these before and I have a signature for this Spitfire please watch all their hand and decent weather around here by the way sergeant I want to Whitney out of you can you tell me where I can find it yes sir already dispersed boy sir over there right okay will you check out the in and out with the new pilot okay be back a few minutes see you at the cry my name's Thompson I've come to collect this aircraft I haven't flown a Whitley before any snags well what have you planned Oh Wellington's I suppose about the nearest well I donít controls Pepin and the carriage are on the second side your timur controls a pencil instead of on the left hand and throttle and mixture right hand instead of left the wheels still say mine well that's a different shape too well but how did she handle Oh perfectly this is one thing to remember coming in that you've got a lot of inner friend behind you and don't rush it on the ground okay all right thanks good thing it turned out fine I haven't had a budget on time I found a bit nippy after heavy stuff why don't you do a hurricane or a short trip sir I don't fortify you're aware I don't think I will you mad things are going so well does now something was cross up if I do color I thought you were on your way to very good knit that tomahawk know knowing that coast a bit hot up there at the moment I ring up Fighter Command and they've telmo's array developing inside better hang on a little while right you better hang on darling crying in the middle okay good steak Thomson is going straight into that hello now get me war Brooke Beauty pilot priority Badou now for heaven's sake when you're coming in to land check green lights undercarriage down on LA yeah propellers in fully fine pitch and the tool speed does not drop below 90 otherwise you'll fall out of their hands right I think that spells Milazzo Terrace desert who'd like to fly I can couldn't I well I can't now right yeah 13 coming in the books tomorrow and I'm gonna finish that already puts on quite stylish and now due to burn at wallbrook there's a pilot of ours Thompson coming for a whip there hello he's gone is he well that's all we can do thank you goodbye Larry Thompson heading straight for a bunch of jurors boy this is one occasion where wire speed that he used for us without use it hello what's this now Oh Jenkins cow again must be milking time there's something this is more like it here they come on sound on sound of style aircraft coming in northeast let's talk itself it's alright one of our tiny you know the tackiness is meant to tell you okay we're coming in three nights under carried it down and locked and the tool speed does not clock for there 90 otherwise she will fall out of your hands sit down well nice uneventful little trip for these airplane should you flag good how does it have I wish that get anyone maybe we are giving one for long well I shan't forget my first Whitley in a hurry I bet it was fun but you get used to him three to nine okay it just takes a didn't breath I say the bands of dead in Bravo we'll have to pick him up in the morning moon and now at dusk the taxi planes are returning to their home aerodrome reporting another day's quota of deliveries added to the striking force of the RAF the ferry pilots have built up their own tradition of service to ferry any plane anywhere at any time through almost any weather with this ideal of service not every day can all come home at nightfall the cause of freedom demands its casualties from every service but the mounting record of deliveries is a fine tribute to the pilots and the ground crews of the ATA well how about something really big tomorrow well we thought putting on a barrel but into the north in the morning I'm not stood you know that one anyway all right that one you push well it really was it

Channel: PeriscopeFilm

Views: 71,868

Keywords: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, Royal Air Force, Anson aircraft, Spitfire, Whitley bomber

Id: 8fk4mnaz4dU

Length: 30min 37sec (1837 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 21 2015