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    "title": "Press and Radio Conference with General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff",
    "description": "This is an interview with General Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, about a United States Air Force delegation visit to the Soviet Union.",
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    "ocrText": "3\n(7/5 1.50 p.m.)\nand did some barrel rolls and other fancy turns, but the two\noutside loops were quite effective.\nThen they had some women pilots put on a show. And\nthe women did very fine. They were in propeller type aircraft\nbut they did very fine formation flying and some stunt flying.\nAnd I asked the Marshal one day -- they used women pilots in\nthe war as combat pilots, you know. Actually combat pilots in\nfighter and bomber aircraft. And I asked him how were the\nwomen, were they good pilots in a combat way? And he said the\nwomen were excellent pilots and they had great courage. That\ndoesn't mean that the men didn't have great courage, but he\naccentuated that the women did have great courage the\nwomen pilots in the war.\nRicense\nas\nThen they flew by, after that phase, a series of\naircraft -- there were three new ones -- four new ones shown.\nThe three delta-wing fighters -- and the fourth one was a\nground assault type aircraft like our C123, and it was powered\nwith turbo-prop type of engines. Looked like a pretty good\nairplane.\nIt was misting and raining and the ceiling was fairly\nlow at times. And so the show probably would have been a little\nmore extensive, had the weather been really clear. But we saw\nenough to see they are very skillful pilots. Good pilots.\nThen they demonstrated their parachute work, which\nwas very fine. They expected to finish this up with a great big\nparachute drop from about 15 airplanes. They had to call this\noff, the big drop, because the wind picked up to about 20 knots\nand it certainly would have been foolish to jump that many men\nwith the wind like that. But the first people that came over\nI would say about 50 different parachute drops, and demonstrated\ntheir techniques; and we did see that.\nThey brought the helicopters in as part of this show.\nI\nthink there were -- they brought in 35 helicopters in close\nformation, setting them all down as one airplane on the field\nand took their men out of those and their equipment along with\nthem. They brought four of the great big helicopters, just\nlike our Piasecki that has two engines. And their flying in\nthat was very good.\nWe saw complete, from start to finish, the construction\nof a jet engine -- was an engine that they got from the British\nback -- the Nene engine. Not a modern engine by any shape or\nmanner of means, but we could see how the factory operated, what\nthe techniques were, and so on, and how they carried on their\nproduction. And the end product was very good.\nAnd then we saw the plant that makes the IL-14. That\nis a new propeller transport aircraft, somewhere between our\nDC-3 and the Convair of ours. That is the airplane we flew to\nStalingrad in.\nAnd we went to their engineering school and was very\nmuch impressed with that. A fine school. They train the boys\non the technology and engineering. They go to that school\nfive years, and then they go back to the service.\nAnd we saw their air academy. That is where --\ndifferent from the technical phase. They train them in another\nschool -- the tactics and technique of combat -- up to a certain\nage. Not a senior school by any means. but boys about the age\nof 24 to 30, and they seem to know what they are doing in both\nthese schools. Have a good course. They balance the practical\nwith the theory pretty well."
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