https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ea824327-81c0-491d-a0cd-d0929c234132 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This short film "Air Combat Maneuvering -- Offense" is one of a series created by the United States Navy to help train fighter pilots and introduce them to different maneuvers and tactical formations for dogfights. This film was produced by Bray Studios Inc. and its script was written by Paul Bray, Jr. (grandson of the Bray studio founder and the director and producer of many of the films used by Naval Air Training Command, covering gunnery, formation flying, air combat maneuvers and carrier landings). The film opens with historic footage of Curtiss R-3 planes taking off in a field (0:32). A Curtiss R-3 plane takes off on a ship (0:46). Vought F4U Corsair plane flies in the sky (0:51). An airplane takes off (0:55). Fighter jets (1:00). Grumman F-14 plane in the sky (1:07). An airplane catches fire and crashes into the ocean (1:13). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane grounded (1:22). Pilot prepares himself to fly the plane (1:31). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane preparing to take off (1:35). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane flying in the sky (1:51). Drawing of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane with a total energy equation (1:58). Digraph explaining the physics of flight (2:28). Drawing of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane with an energy equation (2:37). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane flies (3:31). Drawing of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane with the energy addition rate (3:41). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane flies (4:15). View from the pilot seat of the sky (4:23). Drawing representing turn performance (4:30). Pilot attempts to get another aircraft in his sight (6:37). Animation explaining “Angle Off” maneuver (6:58). Pilot attempts to get another aircraft in his sight (7:54). Animation explaining the “Closure Rate” maneuver (8:09). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane in the sky (8:32). Pilot attempts to get another aircraft in his sight (8:38). Animation explaining the “High Yo Yo” maneuver (9:03). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane in the sky (10:40). Perspective from an aircraft pilot of clouds and farmland and another aircraft (10:52). Animation of the “Displacement Roll” maneuver” (11:40). Pilot perspective pursuing another aircraft (12:06). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane in the sky (12:25). Animation of flight maneuvers and tactics with small airplanes and arrows (12:43). Pilot perspective while flying and pursuing another aircraft (14:10). Animation of flight maneuvers and tactics with small airplanes and arrows (14:57). Two Douglas A-4 Skyhawk planes take off (15:58). Two Douglas A-4 Skyhawk planes fly above the clouds (16:05). Two pilots flying a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane (16:12). Pilot helmet (16:15). Pilot attempts to get another aircraft in his sight (16:22). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane begins to descend (16:27). Douglas A-4 Skyhawk plane lands on the runway (16:31). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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=jEvXyUPDRlE Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:16:12 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/ea824327-81c0-491d-a0cd-d0929c234132 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.