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Historic Repair and Maintenance Training Films
These 16mm films were timeless in their information and methodology so we thought to preserve them on video. We sent them to a preservation house in Burbank, CA to be cleaned and restored, then sent to Hollywood, CA for digital re-mastering to video. The results are a smooth and clean method of instruction that we just didn't want to replace with our own efforts. We hope that you will enjoy and benefit form the information on them as much as we have. They are truly inexpensive treasures!
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Aircraft Structural Tubing Video Set (3 DVDs)
Total running time of 3 DVDs is 4 hrs, 35 min., b&w and color
This 3-DVD set contains the 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction (4 1/4 hours, color), and Repairing Structural Tubing (20 min., b&w, description below).
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Aluminum Welding Methods (ALCOA)
Alcoa, 33 min., b&w, 1941
This film details gas welding with both hydrogen and acetylene, and then covers stick welding, carbon arc, atomic hydrogen, and spot welding. Shows proper preheat and postheat methods for heavy sections, and proper edge beveling and gapping also. An excellent resource. Rare information!.
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Complete Piper J-3 Cub Training Series
110 min., b&w, c. 1937 - 1948
Four separate films have been combined into one very educational 110-minute DVD. See how the Piper factory originally built the J-3 in 1937, and then watch how they do a preflight inspection, and annual inspections on airframe and engine! Can you imagine watching the actual construction of a J-3 in the Piper factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania? See the step-by-step construction of fuselage, wing, and gear. See fabric covering, control installation, rib forming, and engine installation and runup. Inspiring!!! Remember that many of the tube-and-fabric aircraft can benefit from this valuable information.
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Eyes of Flight
Rohm & Haas, 33 min., color, 1957
If you want to learn how to handle, cut, drill, form and care for Plexiglas, then this is the film! Many experienced craftsmen have told me how much they enjoyed this film. Special drills, saw speeds, solvents and polishing techniques are shown, along with the causes of "crazing". Includes footage from Bell showing how canopies are blown. Warbird footage! Great info!
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Metal Aircraft Construction Methods
30 min., b&w, c. 1942
This fascinating look inside the airplane factories shows just how we produced over 330,000 aircraft in 4 1⁄2 years. Patterns, blanking, forming, and assembly are shown, of course, but so also are pressformers, drop hammers, metal spinning, and power hammers. And then watch the complicated assembly process of the P-39 Airacobra!
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Polishing Aluminum Aircraft (Swift)
30 min., color
Also known as the Swift Polishing video, this film details the best way to polish an aluminum airplane...or motorcycle, boat, or auto. Kent has seen the results of the methods taught on this video and they are the best he knows.
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Repairing Structural Tubing
20 min., b&w, c. 1939
This class teaches measuring, geometry, straightening, cutting fishmouths, fitting, splicing, and welding to repair some fuselage damage. A fine companion to our full-length 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction.
Note: You may purchase this video as part of the 3-DVD set, Aircraft Structural Tubing Video Set (3 DVDs). This set includes the 2-DVD series, 4130 Chromemoly Airframe Construction.
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Sheet Metal Repairs to the P38 Lightning
19 min., b&w, c. 1945
Learn to make a perfectly fit and contoured "coin" or flush patch on a compound surface using only basic, non-powered hand tools – the same standard aviation tools and methods that are still used today, but you get to learn them on a classic airplane!!!
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View RealPlayer sample of the P38 Lightning video
Note: Due to internet and RealPlayer limitations, the actual video is much clearer and smoother than the RealPlayer sample we offer here.
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Closeout VHS - while it lasts
Preflight Inspection & Factory Construction of the J3 Cub
55 min., b&w, c. 1937 - 1948
VHS Only CALL FOR AVAILABILITY BEFORE ORDERING: 530-292-3506.
Our "Factory Construction of the J3" has been combined with "Preflight Inspection" to make one very educational 55-minute video. First, see how the Piper Factory originally built the J3 in 1937 and then see how they recommended doing a very thorough preflight inspection! Can you imagine watching the actual construction of a J3 in the Piper Factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania? See the step-by-step construction of fuselage, wing, and gear. See fabric covering, control installation, rib forming, and engine installation and runup. Inspiring!!!
THIS VHS TAPE includes 2 of the 4 films that are included on the Complete Piper J-3 Cub Training Series DVD. (VHS were originally sold separately due to length. All films now combined on DVD).
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"The Metal Aircraft Construction Methods video was especially interesting since it is very likely that my dad and an uncle worked at that plant at the time of the filming. They worked in sheet metal; my dad did flatwork and my uncle was an expert in compound forming. I'm guessing the film was made in the summer of 1942, based on the type of plane built (P-39D) and the work force still showing lots of young males. By summer 1943 induction was in full gear and women would have made up a large percentage of the employees.
The Bell plant was located in Wheatfield, N.Y. which is about 10 miles from Niagra Falls. It built P-39s and later in the war, the P-63. The vast majority of its production ended up in Russia. After the war, helicopters went into mass production with the Bell Model 47. Wheatfield was also the experimental facility that produced the X-1, X-1A, and X-2.
Helicopter production eventually shifted to Fort Worth, TX, where my dad transferred in 1950. He went on to a career in production supervision, retiring in 1984. My uncle stayed in Buffalo, eventually ending in rocket motor assembly in Bell." –Dr. Maj
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