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CHINA CLIPPER, PAA - VHSsee photo, all color footage, footage from an old promotional film shows, in detail, a Boeing 314 Clipper flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong via the elegant pacific stopovers in Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam & Manila, Philippines; Martin M-130. Witness its construction and historic first flight across the Pacific Ocean, piloted by the legendary Captain Musick in 1935; B-314 was a magnificent airplane that was instrumental in creating the romantic legend of the China Clipper during America's Golden Age of Aviation. 60 minutes$14.95
COMBAT AMERICA (351st BG) - VHS see photo, all color, American propaganda financed by the Army Air Corps concerns the heroism, skill and courage of the 351st Air Bombardment Group, stationed in England. Narrated by Clark Gable, an Air Force captain 62 minutes$7.50
CONQUEST - VHS see photo, history of the U.S. Space Program, includes lauches with WW II, Von Braun's rockets, 1984 Space Shuttle Mission. 180 minutes$14.00
CRIMSON ROMANCE (Erich Von Stroheim) - DVD anti-war statement highlighted by daring aerial acrobatics 58 minutes $9.95
DAMBUSTERS RAID - DVD see photo, Documentary 48 minutes $9.95
DESTINATION TOKYO - VHS see photo, offbeat casting of Cary Grant as a submarine captain pays off in this tense WWII underwater picture; he ably trades in his sophistication for the sweaty close quarters of an action movie, 2 hrs 16 min $7.50
DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR (James Cagney & Pat O'Brien) - VHS Cagney plays a wisecracking self-absorbed pillot who joins the marines to train with O'Brien. 1 hr 36 minutes $7.50
DIVE BOMBER (Errol flynn & Fred MacMurray) - VHS made in the days leading up to the U.S. entering WW II, explores the life & duty of a military flight surgeon. 2 hrs 10 minutes $7.50
DUXFORD AIR MUSEUM - VHSsee photo, personal tour of one of the great air museum, 90 minutes$12.95
EARLY U.S. ARMY AVIATION 1918-1924 - VHS,see photo, footage from the cockpit of the SPAD S.7. Next, see the legendary Frank Tallman fly WWI aircraft: the Nieuport 28, Sopwith Camel, Fokker D.VII and others. Finally, join the famous U.S. Army team flying Douglas World Cruisers around the world in 1924, 55 minutes$14.95
ENEMY AT THE GATES - VHS, Jude Law, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, a Russian sharpshooter is built up to be a hero, Germans send their top marksman to pick him off, WW 2 story with romatic subplot. 131 minutes$7.50
FIGHTER ACES OF WORLD WAR II - VHSsee photo, four aces of the 357th FG, see gun-camera footage, rememberances by Maj. Richard Peterson, Capt. William O'Brian, Col. Clarence Anderson, Gen. Thomas Hayes, approx. 50 min. $4.50
FIGHTING 51st - KOREA - DVDsee photo, DVD, covers 1950 to 1953, John Ford documentary, 51st Fighter Wing, Dogfights, Return from Mig Alley, Gabreski becomes a jet ace, 1 hr. 57 min. $28.95
FIRST CAPITAL AIRLINE VISCOUNT -VHSrecords the delivery of the first Capital Airline Viscount, which was not a success story, 48 mins $12.95
FLIGHT - 1929 - VHS Jack Holt, one of Columbia's first "all talking" films, U.S. Marine Corps aviation in Nicaragua. 116 minutes $4.50
FLIGHT OF THE JUNE BUG - VHSdemonstates lifting qualities of very early flyers up to the Fokker D.VII, original footage taken in upstate N.Y, 38 mins $14.95
FLYING CARRIERS - VHS see photo, Covers the 1930's, including metalclads, ZRS program an later Zeppelins. USS Akron and USS Macon's construction and operations with hook-on aircraft are emphasized. LZ-129 and LZ-130 are included. The most astounding chapter in aeronautic history, 2 hrs $14.95
FLYING IRISHMAN - VHS life & times of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who said he was flying across country. He went on to fly across the Atlantic in an unauthorized trip to Ireland. 70 minutes $17.95


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