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Tarrant County Archives - B-24 Ditching Experiment (1944)
Tarrant County Archives
Silent | 1944 | B/W | English

Categories:
1940s
Training Films
Armed Forces
Military Aviation
Aviation and Aerospace
Tarrant County Archives
This 1944 government film overviews a NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) experiment of ditching a reinforced B-24 bomber in Chesapeake Bay. The film includes demonstrations of the modifications made to the aircraft, the avionics used for gathering data, and the actual ditching of the aircraft.
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