Net Videos: B-58 Tests, Rampaging P-47s, Black Cat PBYs, Superforts &more

Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In Big January 2010 Newsletter

Hello World War 2 & jet aircraft fans ---

You're invited to drop by Zeno's Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com
for this month's showing of five exciting aviation documentary films
playing over the Internet. This month we have a Premier plus all five
films have been remastered for better web streaming.

As always, all of the videos showing on our web site are for your free
viewing pleasure. The movies playing at the Matinee are now viewable
in both RealVideo and Windows Media streaming video formats.

Now showing "At the Matinee" at Zeno's Drive-In

"The B-58 Hustler First Test Flight" Premier! Exclusive color
corrected production from Military Arts Pictures. On Veterans Day, Nov
11th, 1956 Convair's revolutionary delta wing B-58 "Hustler"
supersonic bomber took to the skies for the first time, piloted by B.
A, Ericson. You'll see both low and high speed taxi testing, including
front wheel lift off, delivering excellent footage of the silvery
prototype from a number of angles. Then the test first flight takes
the aircraft to Mach .7 at 20,000' and back down again without a
hitch. You'll see it all in this memorable color film.

"The 362nd Fighter Group On the prowl over Germany " Exclusive
original documentary -- some of the most exciting color air action
sequences to come out of World War 2! Select 362nd Fighter Group P-47
Thunderbolt fighter/bombers were especially equipped with extra color
movie cameras to capture thrilling ground and air attacks as they
happened. These Thunderbolts struck targets inside Nazi Germany as the
war against the Third Reich entered it's final act in Spring, 1945.
The result is unique from the cockpit views putting you in the middle
of attacks on tanks, airfields, trucks, rail yards, bridges, trains,
fighters, and more. You'll even see antiaircraft fire arcing up from
the ground, bursting around the big “Jugs” as they make their low
level strikes. You'll see 362nd CO Col. Joe Laughlin and the pilots
and crews of the 377th, 378th and 379th Fighter Squadrons and their
aircraft in living color.

"Winged Artillery -- B-25G Mitchell Bombers in Action" Exclusive --
reconstructed audio & glorious color corrected video. Nine 75mm cannon
firing B-25Gs of the 48th Bomb Squadron, 7AAF, based on Apamama in the
Gilbert Islands, conduct a hair raising tree top level strike on the
Japanese air base on Mille. Also features amazingly well preserved and
very rare color footage of daily life of air crew and ground personnel
stationed on the islands. As a bonus, you'll watch Sea Bees using
heavy equipment to transform these hard won tropical atolls into fully
functioning air bases and ground crews maintaining the Mitchell's
massive canons.

“The Story of the Black Cat PBYs” with restored print. The identities
of the previously undisclosed secret PBY base shown in this film and
the men who flew from it are now revealed for the first time in this
exclusive release. What was that mysterious plane swooping down out of
the night sky on unsuspecting Japanese ships and bases, hundreds of
miles from any known American airstrip? As you'll see in this good
humored, affectionate film, the secret weapon was the slow, ungainly,
but deadly "Black Cat" PBY. Originally designed primarily as a
reconnaissance and antisubmarine amphibious patrol plane, the big twin
engined Catalina's super long range, all weather capability, capacity
to lug both bombs and radar, ability to loiter for hours hunting
convoys and operate from anywhere in the watery PTO, made it an ideal
naval night attack bomber. One of the least known stories of the war
in the Pacific, these black painted PBY "VPB" ('Patrol Bombing")
squadrons spread destruction and chaos far out of proportion to their
relatively small numbers.

"Saipan Superforts" Exclusive original documentary from Military Arts
Pictures This recently discovered footage shows the 73rd Bomb Wing,
based on the island of Saipan in the Marianas, operating against Japan
in early 1945. You'll see B-29 pilots & crews on R&R and on missions
in their magnificent Superfortresses. The fates of many of the B-29s
shown in this picture are documented during the film. Some made the
ultimate sacrifice. You'll see a gallery of memorable 73rd Bomb Wing
nose art too -- all in living color. "The "maximum effort" take-off
scene is an awe inspiring combination of 18 cylinder engine roar and a
musical score that's guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

If you haven't stopped by Zeno's Drive-In before, we also feature
1940-45 vintage WWII Army & Navy films and pilot's manuals on how to
fly the F4U, F6F, P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-61, TBF/TBM, AT-6/
SNJ, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20, A-26, B-26, B-29, and Stearman N2S.
Alert! - don't miss the F-86 & B-58!

Free admission for all. That's over 14 hours of rockin' World War II
props & jets for free viewing over the Internet!

Zeno

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Net Videos: B-58 Tests, Rampaging P-47s, Black Cat PBYs, Superforts &
more