THE TRAINING OF A FLYING CADET, MARCH FIELD, CALIFORNIA AND KELLY FIELD, TEXAS Part 5

Description

Covers flight training and off-duty activities of cadets at March Field and Kelly Field, graduation ceremonies, and events at National Air Races (Los Angeles - September 1928). VIPs include 1st Lt Arthur C. Gobel winner of Dole Derby race to Hawaii (1927). 1) Tent city at March Field. 2) Cadets leaving tent, doing P.T. exercises, disassembling machine gun, participating in track and field events, team sports and swimming. 3) PT-3s on approach and landing. 4) Cadets trap shooting, firing pistols on firing range, working on aircraft engines, riding 3-axis simulator, putting on parachute, boarding C-1 and parachuting from C-1. 5) AVs of March Field. 6) Sign: NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS WILL CROSS THE FLYING FIELD AT ANY TIME. 7) PT-3s parked, taxiing and taking off. 8) Cadets with girl friends at lake (maybe Lake Arrowhead). 9) Cadets with girl friends looking at PT-3. 10) Events at National Air Races in Los Angeles showing PT-3s taking off and in flight; spectators at air races; Lockheed Vega "YANKEE DOODLE" being towed; unidentified biplane in aerobatics, three PT-1s taking off, in flight, and doing inside loops; USN FB-5s taking off, in flight, and doing inside loops. 11) Cadets and girl friends frolicking on beach. 12) Cadets and girl friends beside aircraft (probably a WACO 10). 13) 1st Lt Arthur C. Gobel leaving travel air monoplane - name: WOOLAROC. 14) Spectators looking at WOOLAROC. 15) Cadets at inspection and marching. 16) 1st Lt Gobel being promoted to Captain. 17) AVs of PT-3 in flight. 18) AVs of March Field. 19) Cadets relaxing outside operations building and walking to trucks. 20) DH-4 parked and taking off. 21) Cadet climbing into DH-4 and waving. 22) Ditchdigger in operation in tent city. 23) DH-4 landing and parked. 22) Cadets standing around, not doing much of anything. 25) Cadets cleaning barracks windows. 26) Cadets looking at map. 27) AVs of March Field and surrounding area. 28) Cadets in Tijuana at horse racetrack, dining at resort hotel, and drinking beer in bar. 29) March Field basketball team. 30) AVs of PT-3s in flight. 31) Cadets cranking propeller on DH-4. 32) PT-3s taking off. 33) AVs of DH-4s taking off. 34) Cadets flying rubber band powered models. 35) Cadets at graduation ceremonies (27 February 1929). 36) PT-3s in flyover. 37) Officers dressed in civilian attire at train station (Colton, Calif) and on train. 38) O-2 taxiing. 39) AVs of Ally Field. 40) AVs of O-1s in flight. 41) 2d Lt Dan M. Medler and other pilots. 42) Cockpit layout and view from cockpit of bomber (probably LB-5). 43) Spectators at open house. 44) O-2A making low pass, cutting string between poles. 45) Pilots boarding O-2A. 46) O-2A taking off, in flight, and landing. 47) LB-5s in flight. 48) Pilots posing for group picture at front of O-2.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities