Picking Up The Pilot (1933)

Titles read: “Picking up the Pilot. An Airship Experiment. For Coastal patrol work, the airship’s ability to slow down, or hover, enables it to do many things impossible to the aeroplane - “. United States of America. Various shots of an airship in flight. Two men are seen at the controls. The airship flies low over the sea and lowers a rope ladder down to a launch on the water. A man climbs onto the ladder and starts to climb up it. Intertitle: “So, after all - the bulky but nimble airship is a very handy fellow in his own way - especially when he literally “picks up the Pilot!“. The ladder is lowered down to a man on a speedboat who climbs up and into the ship. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which inclu