Victory Through Air Power movie poster.
Movie (1942)
Starring:
Alexander P. de Seversky (himself)
A cartoon by Disney's studios which tells in the first part, the story of aviation; the second one recalls evolution of air power; the last one introduces A. de Seversky and the theory of his book about future air power and strategy. (note: some airplane are drawn with great accuracy but most have unusual details (for example: armament or engine) and a handful are pure caricatures).
Note: This is an animated work. The aircraft shown in it are therefore not actual aircraft. However, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible.
Wright Flyer I[]
Santos Dumont 14-bis[]
Henri Fabre Hydroplane & Unidentified Aircraft[]
Flying lower, the first Hydroplane which flew for the first time on 28 March 1910.
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Looks like the Bristol Type T (but the real one has two rudder).
Blériot Limousine[]
Disney's jokes[]
General shape of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim's Flying Machine.
Another White Eagle, the cheapest of all the proposals.
A sailplane based on the Curtiss June Bug, a failed attempt.
Phillips Multiplane N°3[]
Santos-Dumont Demoiselle & Robert Esnault-Pelterie REP n°1[]
Robert Esnault-Pelterie was a french pionneer who studied aircrafts not with pragmatism but with really a scientific mind. He is the inventor of the joystick which was on his REP 1 (the red plane on this screenshot).
Ader Eole[]
This Flying Swan is in fact the Eole, the first trial of french pioneer Clément Ader. This steam machine made a controversial flight in 1890 but Clément Ader is much more realistic in his opinion in future warfare.
Blériot XI Taxi-Pingouin []
Here without engine, it's the aircraft with the shortest wingspan for very first lessons and training limited to taxiing.
Jean-Marie Le Bris Albatros []
Joke based on the vintage 1856 winged boat of the frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris. The original one was just a glider.
Blériot XI[]
Curtiss D[]
Eugene Ely took off from the USS Birmingham (14 nov 1910).
Ely landed his Curtiss pusher airplane on a platform on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania (18 January 1911).
Curtiss D Hydro[]
Wright Brothers Model EX[]
Calbraith Perry Rodgers who flew 4,212 miles in 49 days from New York City to Pasadena (17 september 1911 / 5 november 1911).
The Vin Fiz Flyer was an early Wright Brothers Model EX pusher biplane.
Caudron G.3[]
Farman HF.20 & Etrich Taube caricatures[]
DFW C.V & Morane-Saulnier L Parasol caricatures[]
Fokker E.III caricature[]
Albatros D.II[]
General shape with incorrect wing struts.
Handley Page O/100[]
Albatros D.V[]
SPAD S.VII[]
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny[]
Curtiss NC-4[]
Vickers F.B.27A Vimy Transatlantic[]
Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis[]
Douglas World Cruiser[]
Lockheed Vega[]
Lockheed 14 Super Electra[]
Boeing Model 15[]
Alias PW-9 for the Army and FB-5 for the Navy. Given to be the first aircraft with a turbocharger despite several aircraft of WW1 have already such device.
Gee Bee R-1 Senior Sportster & Gee Bee Model Z Super Sportster[]
N° 11 of Jimmy Doolittle (in 1932) and N° 4 (yellow) winner of the 1931 Thompson Trophy (with Lowell Bayles at the controls).
In fact, the two planes never flew together as the Z crashed before the first flight of the R-1.
Bell P-39 Airacobra[]
Another caricature to illustrate the heavier armament
Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor[]
Boeing 307 Stratoliner[]
Registration NC19902 was really worn by one of the Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner.
Boeing 314[]
Boeing 314 of PAA-Pan American Airways System.
Various Aircrafts[]
An air parade in a tribute to the first aircraft bought by the US Army in which we can recognise (among the next five screenshots) the following shapes : Vultee A-31 Vengeance, Lockheed Ventura / Hudson, Douglas C-54A Skymaster, Douglas A-20 Havoc, Consolidated B-24, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando, Martin PBM Mariner and probably many others (but the stream is so dense !).
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Sopwith F.1 Camel ?
Curtiss P-40B/C Warhawk[]
SPAD S.XIII[]
Avro Lancaster[]
Calling up a ten tons bomb (the future Tallboy), an approximative shape of the Avro Lancaster (the only other bomber with such a load bomb, the Boeing B-29 has a tricycle gear).
Supermarine Spitfire Mk V[]
A Spitfire (?) attacking german bombers. The single four engine attacking aircraft of the Lutwaffe was then the Focke-wulf Fw 200, a maritime patrol never used in such raid.
Douglas XB-19[]
The wingspan of the Douglas XB-19 is wider of the first powered flight made by the Wright Brothers.
Blériot XI[]
A. Seversky's father was one of the very first airmen in Russia, owner of a Blériot XI slighty modified and built by Mikheil Grigorashvili.
Farman HF.3[]
FBA C ("130 chevaux")[]
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny[]
A blueprint of a study at the end of the first World War.
Martin NBS-1[]
USS Alabama hit by a white phosphorus bomb dropped by an Martin NBS-1 during bombing tests led by Col. Mitchell, September 1921. In fact, a flight was dispatched consisting of two Handley-Page O/400 and six NBS-1.
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Seversky SEV-3[]
Seversky SEV-3L[]
Seversky BT-8[]
Seversky P-35[]
Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka[]
Fairey Swordfish[]
Dornier Do 17 Z[]
Aircrafts on the left and the right of the second rank have a shape similar to the Junkers Ju 88.
Fictionnal German Assault Glider[]
Looks like some sport glider of the prewar years.
Junkers Ju 52/3m[]
Mitsubishi Ki-21[]
December 1941 : british battleship Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Mitsubishi G3M but it's a Ki-21 which is drawn.
Douglas SBD Dauntless[]
Mitsubishi G4M []
Unidentified Japanese Aircraft[]
Messerschmitt Bf 109[]
Project LRCF[]
Has some lines of the future Republic XF-12A, a 1946 prototype for a long-range photo-reconnaissance. The draft of the LRCF is about a much more heavier and powerfull bomber.
Fictitious Bomber[]
Like a first draft of the future Convair B-36 (which genesis started only a handful months before the movie). Indeed Convair started studies of its Model 36 a twin tail configuration.
American Barrage balloons[]
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