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High Calling: Alabama's Aviation Legacy is a UA CPT&R documentary from The Alabama Experience series hosted online at the AAPB (transcript generated using MS Azure Video Indexer service V2)

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https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-27ef408aa67#at_571.000000_s

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09:31

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The year was 1910. Two men brothers (0.8804)

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Wilburn TfL right had only recently Made Man's dream of Flight a reality on February 26th. (0.8211)

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Arable right in his AB model by plane took off from a small strip on a plantation in Alabama. (0.8211)

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By March of that year (0.856)

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the brothers had decided Montgomery AL would be the site for the first of it in flying school. (0.856)

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Wilbur was the one who established the side here (0.8486)

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but it was actually horrible. (0.8486)

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Who came back in March to open the flying school here (0.8486)

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AL where there was a clear flat farmland with good flying weather. (0.8486)

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And so he came here. (0.8486)

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He visited several sites in Montgomery (0.8486)

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but where it's unsatisfied with those and he finally settled on the Cone Plantation (0.8486)

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which is decide on which we're sitting right now. (0.8486)

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That decision proved to be a popular one. (0.8486)

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Dozens of students applied. And the school itself became quite a draw. (0.8348)

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Crowds gathered by car and by buggy to see this curious new contraption. (0.828)

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As many as 3000 spectators sometimes gathered on a given day (0.828)

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local businessmen took notice. (0.828)

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Right away they recognize the commercial potential for having a flying school in Montgomery (0.8408)

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AL and one of the first things at the local business businessmen did was to agree to build the hanger free of charge in return for having the advertising rights (0.8408)

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on the building. Sometimes like our prices like Wilbur Wright (0.8408)

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but not up in the air or things like that. (0.8408)

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Though the school only lasted a few months (0.8814)

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it was still considered quite a success. (0.8814)

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When the Wright brothers left (0.8442)

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there was some hope they would return to build an airplane factory. (0.8442)

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When this didn't happen the Army leased the property as an engine repair depot to service planes flying in World War One. (0.8442)

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One of those planes carried Second Lieutenant William Calvin Maxwell (0.8442)

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an Alabama native who crashed in the Philippines while trying to avoid some children playing in a rice field. (0.8442)

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Maxwell Field was named in his honor. (0.8442)

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Really in many ways this is sort of the emotional and intellectual home of the Air Force. (0.8522)

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What we see in terms of our intellectual home (0.8522)

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Maxwell Field was the home of the airport Apple School in the 30s. (0.8522)

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It was really the birth place of all the doctrine (0.8522)

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philosophy and many of the tactics and procedures that lead us to victory in the skies of Europe and in the Pacific during the Second World War really ended up (0.8522)

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being the foundation if you will (0.8522)

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of the philosophes that led to the Air Force becoming a separate service in 1947. (0.8522)

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It was two things at Maxwell. (0.8808)

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It was the only advanced school for Army Air officers. (0.8808)

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In addition to that it was a think tank. (0.8951)

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Most of the theory that ultimately was translated into strategy by the Army Air Forces in World War Two had its origin here at Max. (0.8544)

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Most of the senior officers in the Army Air Forces. (0.8544)

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We're trained here at maximum. (0.7472)

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One such officer was the famous Claire Chennault (0.8365)

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a major at Maxwell in the 1930s. (0.8365)

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He created the world's first close formation aerial demonstration team. (0.8365)

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A forerunner to today's Thunderbirds (0.7793)

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they were called three men on a flying trapeze. (0.7793)

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