This film was produced by Pan Am (Pan American World Airways) to promote their jet clipper service from New York to London. The narration was likely designed to win over the first class transatlantic liner crowd. Never before (or since) has air travel been depicted so glamorously.

This 1969 promotional video from Beechcraft was used as a means of educating people on airplanes, and ultimately into one of their aircraft.

Plane Talk (1965) is a film that showcases the varied forms of communications used by commercial air carriers in confirming reservations, preparing aircraft for flight, monitoring aircraft in flight, and maintaining air-to-ground contact. Filmed at a time when passenger airline operations was just becoming a mass phenomenon.

“Letter From an Airline Pilot” describes the working of a 1950s-era airline from the point of view of a pilot. It covers most aspect of the operation – from the booking systems, construction of the aircraft, through to catering and navigation.

This 1944 U.S. Army Air Forces training film – “B-29 Flight Procedure And Combat Crew Functioning” – details crew training, engineering, and the responsibilities of B-29 crew. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing and was flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

This 1944 U.S. Army Air Forces training film – “How To Fly The B-26 Airplane” – features Don Porter as a flight instructor responsible for the training of a young lieutenant pilot, played by Craig Stevens. It details the initial introduction to the aircraft. The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engined medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company from 1941 to 1945.

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (company Model 450) was an American long range, six-engine, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The B-47’s primary mission was to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. With its engines carried in nacelles under the swept wing, the B-47 was a major innovation in post-World War II combat jet design, and contributed to the development of modern jet airliners.

This 1943 film from the United States Air Force describes the fundamental techniques and common errors in such manoeuvres as simple loop, half roll, reverse immelmann, snap roll, slow roll, and vertical reverse. It’s a cursory and straightforward introduction and how-to guide for instruction in some of the basic aerobatic (or acrobatic) sequences.

Dramatized U.S. Navy flight instruction – “Primary Flight Instruction – Attitudes Of Flight, Part One” (US Navy, 1945). Narrated by Robert Taylor, this video first introduces the forces acting upon an aircraft before looking at attitude flying in straight and level, climbs, climbing turns, glides, gliding turns, and slow flight.

Dramatized U.S. Navy Training Film on flight instruction. The film “Primary Flight Instruction – Flight Sense”, narrated by Robert Taylor, looks at an introduction to military flight training and airmanship in a rather broad manner.

Dramatized U.S. Navy flight training film: “Primary Flight Instruction – Landings”. Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer plays the inept “Private SNAFU” and Robert Taylor plays the instructor (and narrates).

Dramatized US Navy flight training film: “Primary Flight Instruction Taxiing & Take-Offs”. Covers flight line safety, taxiing, and taking off. Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer plays the numbnut trainee. Narrated by the instructor, Robert Taylor.