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RIGID AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION - VHSsee photo, animation to explain construction techniques as well as live workship piece/part construction & hangar assembly, interior & control views, USS Los Angeles (ZR-3); USS Akron (ZRS-4); USS Macon (ZRS-5) 60 minutes$12.95
THE RIGHT STUFF - DVD , see photo, Journey into space - winner of 4 Academy Awards, 3 hrs$10.95
V-2 ROCKET - VHSsee photo, British made story of the German V2 rocket, complete details, launch shots, how it impacted supersonic speeds 40 minutes$12.50
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - VHS 1998, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Winner of 5 Academy Awards, WW 2 drama, 169 minutes$4.50
SECRETS OF WW II - VHS 1998, Documentary of Tarket Okinawa, covers code breaking, Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway & Okinawa. 50 minutes$6.50
SKYFIRE '86see photo, High action multi-class air racing, WWII aircraft, USAF Thunderbird demonstration, death defying aerobatics, plus incredible in-cockpit footage of the 1986 Unlimited Gold Races in Reno, Neveda 1 hr 32 min $4.95
SKYFIRE '90 - VHSsee photo, Reno National Championship Air Races, see world-class aerobatics, up close as only Skyfire can deliver with the greatest names in aviation, Canadian Snowbirds
$4.50
SKY FURY - VHS over 60 aerial performers - including Blue Angels, Thunderbolds, Snowbirds, highlights of the Skyfire series.
$4.50
SOARING THROUGH HISTORY (United Airlines) - VHS
see photo, history of United Airlines from 1926 through 1998 55 minutes $9.95
STILWELL ROAD - VHS Documentary - General Stilwell road he build to support the Chinese forces when the Burma road got closed. 51 mins $2.00
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (Jimmy Stewart) - VHSsee photo, the only remaining medium in which to view the magnificent B-36 in action, and it's well worth seeing for that. Also, those of us familiar with the 1950s Fort Worth area, Amon Carter Field and Carswell Air Force Base, will recognize some of the scenery 114 mins $7.50
TARGET BERLIN - VHSsee photo, all color footage, actual footage of the entire attack, access from the briefing roms to the bombing run with 600 Lancasters flying over the target in a 20 minute period 60 minutes$19.95
10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION - VHS 1997, Documentary of Ridge Runners - combat outfit of expert mountain climbers trained by US Army, Italian Campaign 1944-45. 45 minutes$6.50
THIN RED LINE (Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte) - VHSsee photo, Thin Red Line follows a company of men through the battle for Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of WWII. While these men are not part of the first wave of the invasion, they still encounter a considerable force of Japanese infantry within the island, 7 Academy Award Nominations 170 minutes $4.50
THIS IS A CAPITAL AIRLINE - VHS original footage of Capital Airlners 34 mins $12.95
THE 303rd BOMB GROUP - DVD,
DVD, new, see photo, color footage of the original "Hell's Angels" and their new B-17s as they depart Kellogg Field for Molesworth Air Base in 1942; go airborne on bombing runs - with narration - to Lorient and Paris, France, in 1943; view "Knock-Out Dropper's" historic 50th mission on November 16, 1943; view the V-E Day celebrations at Molesworth and London; tour the deserted Molesworth Air Base in 1954; and much more. Color and B&W,
1 hr. 44 min. $28.95
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES - DVDsee photo, Comic version of the historic 1910 London to Paris air race 137 minutes$9.95
THUNDERBOLT (57th FG) - VHS Documentary -aerial combat highlights of the Allies in European skies - intro by Jimmy Stewart, narration by Lloyd Bridges. 45 mins $3.00
TOP GUN - VHS Tony Scott, Tom Cruise Kelly McGilis, Young studs vie for glory in the ground and in the air, won Oscar for best song, is still remarkably enjoyable to watch, 93 minutes$4.50
TORA! TORA! TORA! - VHS 1970, Pearl Harbor Atttack, Oscar winning for special effects. 143 minutes$4.50
TORA! TORA! TORA! - DVDsee photo, 143 minutes$9.95
TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (Gregory Peck)- VHSsee photo, made just a few years after WW2, deals with the men of the 918th BG stationed in England as they fly missions against the Germans, although it uses some much-publicized "actual aerial combat footage", the focus of the movie is the emotional interaction of the men 132 minutes$4.50
VIETNAM - AIR POWER IN ACTION - VHS introduction by Brigadier General Stanley Ulanoff, highlights some of the most destructive and crucial air battles. 50 minutes$2.00
WILBUR & ORVILLE WRIGHT - DREAMS OF FLYING - DVDsee photo, A&E Biography, 50 minutes$9.95
WILEY POST OF OKLAHOMA - VHSsee photo, discover of the jetstream, inventor of the high altitute suit, race pilot, first to fly solo around the world, film footage of Wiley & his achievements. 57 minutes$19.95
WING AND A PRAYER (Don Ameche, Dana Andrews) - VHSsee photo, film was released in 1944, much of the data that Americans now take for granted was not available or well-known, follows the exploits of "Carrier X" & her crew through the desperate opening months of WW II when Japan, following the US Pearl Harbor disaster, was seeking to destroy the remnants of the US Navy by engaging them in a decisive large scale sea battle & remove them as a Pacific threat 98 minutes $7.50
WINGS OF THUNDER - VHS highlight performances of the Blue Angels, Canadian Snowbirds, Italian, French & Brazilian Jet teams. Also includes aerobatic, daredivil biplanes.I 30 minutes$2.00
WRIGHT STUFF - VHS the Wright Brothers & the invention of the Airplane, narrated by Garrison Keillor, a production for American Experience (PBS). 60 minutes$14.95


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