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This collections consists of one 16 mm, black and white, silent film from Captain Donald Cohn's gun camera taken during his training with 3654th Flying Training Squadron.
Captain Donald Cohn trained with the 3645th Flying Training Squadron. He was a Korean War veteran (fighter pilot). Cohn flew with both General Chappy James and with Colonel Joe Kittinger, and received two citations from President Eisenhower for dead stick landings of North American F-100s that had suffered flame outs. During the late 1950s, Cohn worked with Major Howard Johnson on parabolic trajectory and human factors in space flight.
NASM.2016.0058
November - December 1954
Stephen F. Cohn, Gift, 2016, NASM.2016.0058
0.04 Cubic feet (one 16 mm film)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collections consists of one 16 mm, black and white, silent film from Captain Donald Cohn's gun camera taken during his training with 3654th Flying Training Squadron. Footage includes air to ground target shooting, aerial rear views of two Lockheed F-80s, and passes made at gunnery and bombing ranges.
No arrangement, just one item.
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Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star Gun Camera Footage, NASM.2016.0058, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star Family
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