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[News Script: Pilot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Captain Chuck O'Connor, a retiring pilot preparing for his last trip from Dallas to New York as an American Airlines skipper.
Date: September 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Forced Landing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane crash involving pilot William Robert Plumlee, who was injured when his plane crashed while attempting to land.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Plane crashes at Grand Prairie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a single-engine plane that crashed into telephone wires while attempting to land at the Grand Prairie Airport. The pilot is Royce Brown, and he is detained by police for questioning.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Powder Puffs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Edna Whyte, who will fly five thousand miles by herself. She will stop in Midland, Texas, then the coast to compete in the Powder Puff Derby.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Women fliers off on first leg of race]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the departure from Dallas of the Women's National Aeronautical Association Air Deby, with thirteen female pilots competing for the fastest times on a flight to Arkansas.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Women fliers off on first leg of race]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the departure from Dallas of the Women's National Aeronautical Association Air Derby, with thirteen female pilots competing for the fastest times on a flight to Arkansas.
Date: May 10, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Forced Landing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a plane crash involving pilot William Robert Plumlee, who was injured when his plane crashed while attempting to land.
Date: September 3, 1956
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The XH-40 Flight Demonstration]

Description: Video footage of Bell Helicopters' XH-40 flight demonstration for the U. S. Army. The XH-40 is a six-place, turboshaft-powered light helicopter, designed with the primary mission of battlefield medical evacuation. Operated by one or two pilots, it could carry four passengers. Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the United States Army) at B… more
Date: October 20, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Powder Puffs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Edna Whyte, who will fly five thousand miles by herself. She will stop in Midland, Texas, then the coast to compete in the Powder Puff Derby.
Date: July 2, 1956
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: AA Landing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an investigation into an emergency landing made by an American Airlines passenger plane. One person, D. E. Hampton, received burns on his hands as he exited the plane on an emergency chute.
Date: October 26, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pilot]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Captain Chuck O'Connor, a retiring pilot preparing for his last trip from Dallas to New York as an American Airlines skipper.
Date: September 24, 1956
Duration: 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane crashes at Grand Prairie]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a single-engine plane that crashed into telephone wires while attempting to land at the Grand Prairie Airport. The pilot is Royce Brown, and he is detained by police for questioning.
Date: July 6, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.740525 -97.023040
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pilot-missionary takes dangerous job]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about missionary and pilot Hobey Lawrence stopping in Fort Worth before departing for a mission trip to Ecuador.
Date: May 13, 1956
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Airline is using new Convair plane]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Continental Airlines unveiling a new Convair 440 aircraft stationed in Carter Field.
Date: April 1, 1956
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Councilman watches rainmaker at work]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth City Council viewing a cloud seeding demonstration.
Date: April 15, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pilot escapes as jet smashed fence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Navy jet losing power on takeoff from Grand Prairie's Hensley Field, skidding across a road, and crashing into a fence. The jet didn't hit any cars and the pilot was uninjured.
Date: April 18, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Air Search]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a continued search for James E. Cunningham and Fred J. Verrips, two Convair employees who presumably parachuted from a B-36 bomber when a flash fire broke out in the plane. The search for the day centers around the town of Argyle, and plans are made to search Lake Dallas tomorrow.
Date: February 7, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Girl is Flown to Galveston Hospital]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Alice Oller, a nine-year-old mentally handicapped girl who was abandoned with her little sister at a Fort Worth railroad station by their mother. After being taken in by the Lena Pope Home, Alice set herself on fire, believing that no one cared about her. She is being flown to Galveston to receive treatment for her burns.
Date: February 23, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pilot uses Highway for Landing Strip]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Cessna airplane's motor going out causing the pilot, Don W. Loftin, and two students, Crocker Nelson and Bob Shepherd, to make a landing strip of a newly completed stretch of road on Jacksboro Highway. Late that day Loftin used the road as a landing and take-off strip just because he could.
Date: June 19, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Air Show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Arlington Air show and Air Races.
Date: June 24, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 'Copter]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an eleven-passenger helicopter making an emergency landing in the Westland community.
Date: January 22, 1956
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Colonel]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Colonel W. A. Hotman Jr. being made Honorary Deputy Sheriff.
Date: December 26, 1956
Duration: 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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