2nd transcript block in High Calling: Alabama's Aviation Legacy documentary (Q15650)

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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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English	2nd transcript block in High Calling: Alabama's Aviation Legacy documentary	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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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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somebody suggested that he come to Montgomery (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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They were flying Pete Wells with open cockpits and doing some things at that time that you see the Thunderbirds do today. (0.8141)

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You probably heard their song. (0.8141)

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They float through the air with the greatest of ease. (0.8141)

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Well that's written about the three men on the flying trapeze that was formed right here at Maxwell Air Force Base. (0.8141)

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But Chenaults accomplishments didn't stop with aerial acrobatics. (0.8141)

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He and his fellow officers were developing crucial air war strategy that would shape the Allied attack. (0.8141)

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In the Second World War. (0.9321)

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One of the things was that was developed here at the Airport Tactical School as the industrial fiber theory of bombing (0.8093)

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along with the idea of high altitude daylight precision bombing (0.8093)

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which was a source of controversy here at the tax cool guys like Claire Chennault maintained that pursuit air planes were still needed to escort bombers deep into enemy territories. (0.8093)

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The bomber boys maintained that bombers could fly high enough and fast enough and were armed sufficiently enough. (0.8093)

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To fight off any attacking pursuit from enemy aircraft and it turned out that Shinault was right and we later in the war went to pursuit (0.8359)

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escorting bombers into Germany and two other theaters of operation. (0.8359)

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By the early stages of World War Two (0.8359)

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the tactical school had been replaced with a flight training center at Maxwell and her sister base Gunner Army Airfield. (0.8359)

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With that operation in full swing (0.8185)

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Montgomery became the starting point for many of would be World War Two. (0.8185)

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Ace Maxwell was the headquarters for all operational training to the east of the 42nd parallel in the United States. (0.8185)

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By operational training we're talking about the training of pilots (0.8185)

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navigators bombardiers Gunners and other flight engineers. (0.8185)

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They were among the cream of the crop. (0.8185)

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Physically and mentally of young American manhood. (0.7401)

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And there were thousands of them here. (0.7401)

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So many. In fact the disguise about Montgomery were said to be the busiest in the world. (0.8658)

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A new class of basic air cadets shipped out every 10 weeks (0.8507)

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more than 10000 all totaled and such with the urgency of the times that while one class graduated another would be taking off overhead. (0.8507)

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To be a fighter to fly B 20 fours over Europe. (0.8123)

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Or B20 nines in the Pacific? (0.8638)

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Every available pilot was needed to fill his role (0.8638)

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so while in Montgomery they trained to the thousands just a few miles away (0.8638)

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