WWII U.S. NAVY FLIGHT SAFETY CARTOON “ JOIN-UP COLLISIONS “ GRAMPAW PETTIBONE XD31504a

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white, animated U.S. Navy training film is from the “Granpaw Pettibone“ series. It features the sage title character, a retired pilot himself, who begins the picture by recounting a fatal incident involving two F4U-4 Corsairs (1:00). According to comments at (2:55), there were three join-up collisions per week at the time the film was made -- many of them likely fatal. At 1:22, Pettibone presents additional accident scenarios involving inattentive pilots who cause collisions by, for example, flying into a blinding, direct sun and losing situational awareness, forgetting where the airplane has blind spots, or getting distracted by dreaming about “another joiner“ (a woman). At 3:07, Pettibone gives advice about how to do join-up techniques cautiously so as to do them safely. This UPA cartoon draws from the contemporaneous work of Lt. Robert Osborn, wh