https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bca2ea22-e394-47e3-a48e-e455c624e6f7 This late 1950s color film about vertol helicopters is presented by Vertol Aircraft Corporation and narrated by radio/TV host Jay Jackson. It opens with “Vertol Helicopters Rescue Scores in Major Disasters!” A listing SS Andrea Doria, 1956, is aided by Vertol helicopters rescuing passengers and transporting wounded (:10-:49). 1955, Tampico, Mexico streets are flooded from hurricanes. A Navy Vertol helicopter (EA 79) brings supplies and transports wounded. A view is shown from inside the cockpit. Below a barn roof says “God Bless You U.S. Navy” (:50-1:54). A helicopter is delivered. The two officers climb aboard and the aircraft takes off (2:40-3:10). Men work at rows of desks underneath fluorescent tube lighting in the “Engineering Division” (3:11-3:25). Close-ups are given of tooling machines in action. A press shapes parts and the pressure gauge is shown (3:26-4:25). Various assembly line pieces are shown, including rivets. The finished pieces are brought together by conveyer (4:27-5:32). The instrument console is installed on an Army Vertol (5:33-5:50). The transmission and rotor head unit move by overhead conveyer belt to the helicopter (5:33-6:33). A French Vertol helicopter is shown (6:35). A woman clicks on switches and documents testing results in a book. Parts are stress-tested and analyzed with a cathode ray oscillograph (6:42-7:23). The rotor blades are checked on a helicopter surrounded by a wire fence. Inside a graph is made recording millivolts. A tracking flag is raised and the marks examined (7:24-8:13). Workers leave the Vertol helicopter factory and walk to a parking lot full of 1950s cars (8:27-8:50). A dot-matrix and punch card printers are shown (8:52-9:03). Air raid horns sound in Washington, D.C. for Operation Alert, an exercise involving Army and Navy Vertol helicopters to prepare to transport important personnel in a nuclear disaster. Pentagon Generals and members of the Defense Department walk to their assigned Army, Navy, and Air Force Vertol helicopter and board (9:05-11:37). A radar dome “Texas Tower” sits on stilts off the coast of New England. A Piasecki H-21 Workhorse transports a new crew to it. The helicopter is guided to a landing spot on the platform before leaving (11:39-13:40). A Vertol approaches a top-secret research installation on a mountaintop in New England. The helicopter lands safely in high wind and snow conditions (13:42-14:40). A DEW Line is being built in Northern Canada (begun in 1954). A Vertol is assembled onsite, painted red to signify an Arctic Air Command. It carries a suspended load of cargo to a radar station (14:42-17:06). A group of Army Vertol helicopters participate in an exercise of its Sky Cavalry. The aircraft temporarily lands and soldiers quickly exit (17:08-18:13). Men look at plans in the Morton, Pennsylvania aircraft plant. A man enters the “Computing Laboratory” door. An engineer works on a computer circuit board. He installs it and flicks switches. Others look at a model (18:18-19:32). Refueling midair is shown (19:33-19:55). A Vertol lifts off from Pike’s Peak. Another has pontoons and lands on water. Another carries a Jeep through the air (19:57-20:55). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcrGhhowdo Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:40:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bca2ea22-e394-47e3-a48e-e455c624e6f7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.