The Alabama Experience; High Calling: Alabama's Aviation Legacy

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what the dawn of the age of five the world's first they were drawn to the site later they came to the thousandth of a fly by think about on the shoulders of the generation of revenue and for the court fb the year was nineteen ten two man whether it will burn our full riot had only recently made man's dream of a wider reality on february twenty six marble writing is a big model by plane to come from a small strip on a plantation in alabama in march of that year

the brothers decide that montgomery alabama would be the site for the first civilian flying squirrel wilbur was the one who established the site here but it was actually a horrible who came back in march to open the flight school here somebody suggested that he come to montgomery alabama were it was a clear flat farmland with good flight weather and so he came here he visited several sites in montgomery the words and satisfy with those and he finally settled on the cone plantation which is a site on which we're seeing right now that decision proved to be a popular one dozens of than the school itself into political white cardboard body to see this curious new contraption as many as three thousand spectators sometimes gathered on the local businessman took notice right away they recognize the commercial

potential for having a client who ended the meltdown of one of the first things that the a local business that means it was to agree to build a hangar free of charge in return for having the ever thirteen right on the building prices like right thing and then there was going less of a few months it was still considered quite a success when the wright brothers left there was some hope they would return to build an airplane factory when this didn't happen the army lease the property as an engine repair service planes flying one of those planes carried second lieutenant william calvin maxwell is an alabama native who question the philippines or try and avoid some children playing in riceville maxwell field was named in his honor really in many ways this is sort of the emotional intellectual home of the air force we

see it in terms of our intellectual home natural field was the home of the airport chapel school in the thirties it was really the birthplace of all a doctorate in philosophy and many the tactics and procedures that lead us to victory in the skies of europe and the pacific during the second world war and ruined up being the year the foundation if you will of the philosophies that led to the air force became a separate service in nineteen forty seven there are two things in my actual it was the only advanced who are arming their options in addition to that it was a three d most of the theory translated into strategy mahdi army air force in world war two had its margin here most of the senior officers in the army and returning to america one such officer was the famous quote schimmel a major factual in nineteen thirty eight he created the world's first close

formation aerial demonstrate few things a forerunner of today's vote may recall three man on the flying trapeze they refine the twelve foot open cockpit scent on something is at that time that you see the caliber of duty then you probably heard this song they float to the year with the greatest of peaceful that's written about the three man on the flying trapeze arguments accomplishments with aerial acrobatics in his fellow officers would evoke the truth of our war strategy that would shape the allied attack in the second world war was there was it that was involved here at the airport tackles who was the industrial fiber syria bombing along with the idea of high altitude they like precision bombing which was a source of controversy here the track school guys like gershon all maintain that pursuit or

a place were still needed to support farmers deep into enemy territory obama boys maintained that the bombers to fly high enough and fast enough and we're on sufficiently enough to fight off any attack and pursued from an airport and it turned out that in all right and we later in the war went to pursue escorting bombers into other areas of the early stages of world war two a technical school of that replaced with a flight training center at maxwell and her sister base gunter army airfield without operation in full swing montgomery became the starting point for many would be the world war two days maxwell who is the head of the whole population training facilities to the forty second parallel in the united states operation training we talk about training pilots navigate years murders and other

writing to me they were among the cream of the crop physically and mentally ill to be an american man in the thousands so many in fact that the skies about montgomery were said to be the busiest in the world and of course of basic market gets shipped out every ten weeks more than ten thousand or so and sex with your view of the times that well one plus another would be taking off over to be a fighter and five be twenty fours over heels of the twenty nines in the pacific every available pot that was needed to fill this role so while in montgomery they train in the thousands just a few miles away normally there so that kind of film to shoot another group of what it was before

ms bee deep inside alabama is a famous school called the tuskegee institute and and its founder booker t washington was a pioneer who broke open a road for others to follow this man had a dream and the dream became stone he lifted the veil of ignorance from these people and pointed the way to progress to education and industry close to the school closed the work this man had done the united states government determined to build an airfield three no more don't back with the army in the future we do know we know we didn't know that we were under considerable scrutiny we used to give

visitors all around and we felt that if we didn't make it we were successful that this might be the end for a fight that was one of the strong motivating factors love saying give me the opportunity it gave me the training and allow me to demonstrate whether or not i can fly and fight don't judge me back the color of my skin allow me to prove or disprove we're above the warm familiar hills of alabama these americans are learning to fly in those tight combat formations they'll use someday down the germans share his own service in addition the fighter groups a year ago this field begin to train men for media bombers to resign as danny and wanting it proved you can't judge a man here by the color of his eyes or the

shape of his nose on the flight strip you judge a man by the way you slice we need some discussion about where original you know i quite like the nineteen forty two the allies had suffered several setbacks and we want i want the women think we could fly airplanes enough given prudent could fly their planes a lot of women weren't sure how we would react in combat it's morning and twenty miles from the enemy these are american boys going to remain the morning flying over italy and there are others like them flying over burma over the coast of pollen over china japan over germany in search of the enemy

enemy planes nearly three to one remains routine morning ritual arose around because the range thirty five hundred feet three thousand twenty five hundred dollars but the odds are still three one it's been three years it's b today looking for the reddest paint that we can fan and and the supply doubles until we found enough to pay the tales of all seventy two and was briefly to want free it and that was you ipad rather than anything else affected you know you can see a swift allows away we appear

democrat if you will only engage calm americans look out to wonder the red tails are a protection today it's been four years before the planes boats forty sevens been riding the most famous of the fifty ones it was very easy for these men they were pioneers and no pioneer as they fought lies before heartbreak and day one now they find the enemy it's been it's always been out of the first class to graduate almost three years ago only a handful are left alive so that liberty might not perish from here more visitors

than it did you know leadership qualities and you can be an officer and that was it would be a before you begin and what we wish him was strong it's a big laugh and if you don't believe it gave me the opportunity and i'll prove it and it became we and that's what really made that to do thirty second fighter group on the unit that it was it was us against the un in the sense that we want to do it and i want this is a small price to nine nine to pursue this was being an entire year's avengers all knew that you stand here before me now is better three years based evidence of reporters and movements but to give you a place fifty years after making history twelve of the

fourteen surviving members of the original tuskegee airman dale it immobile to be recognized for the first time in their home states coming from alabama does that happen i think is going to tell you about what happened in the ticket put too much emphasis on that i think sometimes that we spend too much time talking about how i was and so talk about how we think it ought to be and what we can do to make it right what we want to see that too will have saved scores of six magnitude to consider the castle i'm going to be an engineer and i'm one of it they know about the tuskegee airmen have been inspired i think that we had no idea that we will get a chance to meet the original tuskegee airmen who we came to the campus sighs i mean

generally this is part of an african american pilgrimage because we want the force to actually see where history took place for our people and for us to be able to actually feed your car or here at the training grounds just beyond description i tried to motivate and inspire our that the legacy of the tuskegee airmen as they ask to perpetuate and i tell them that the twenty five centuries going to be what they make it and they can make it as historical as a tuskegee airman did for the clinician of the four hundred and fifty tuskegee airmen who saw combat in world war two sixty six gave their lives in more than two hundred s corporations the three hundred and thirty second fighter group never lost the bomber today that record remains

a lasting legacy for a new generation of alabama fighter pilots to garp in his eyes with winds of waterway modern with saddam until we now fifteen of the world's most the most deadly fighter aircrafts about it are around fifty average alabama cities in the north and the world about the size of wine over command of thousand great americans patriotic alabama teams that were commissioned why he will get here check

the schedule board city is lined with then he'll have to develop his mission point sometimes our geyser be imposed will have bad guy f fifteens out of new orleans says that will come in attack and those are kind of grass toward ago reruns drop their bombs on a day sometime certainly some our own guys test ozark air to ground actually so we try to make the story realistically wheatley ah is both hutus are scientists pacificare but that is all i am so we are in charge of that aircraft until the pilot comes to science for me come and make sure she has the thing that in these landscapes about publishing says by one into the other citizens

standard for time as a full time job for a forty hour work week and he also hates his job so which rule patriots who do a difficult part of their life to be part of a guard and make the air national guard at a world class organization that they were going to combat radicalism was an import any debut we're here together for so long for so many years and we get to know each other so well it's really an advantage and this is very much like a professional sports team really really grabbed georgia's people aboard the fighter pilots either you have it or you can go through flight training and basically fighter pilot is inside and bass goes to equate existence

to get the finished product there's been lots and you're not be far back some so you started a new energy waited i'm a comet utility with mother of our corn that in your pursuit and look it's when you report back to return of an apartment heist that were basically you know kind of sad skills that don't use a lot of practice because you never know anybody right to stay and fight this guy in your vehicles don't think roses or this was your son worker or maybe somewhere hidden valley goes i was your role is fine what that is specialist

assistant plans for the barnes lost my job is to try and just like read their fortune in which they get trained every day weekend when we get the hats not long ago yeah airplanes and says he's been able to hold their interest to white geese to force down in war areas squeeze your legs and the atlantic us and it funds air into your oxygen mask or stare down your loans meanwhile squeeze your muscles roll tide and strain against that read every three seconds that's about how long the brain can go without oxygen and take a deep breath and do it again and do that when you own one to

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