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1980-1990AVIATION
Industry promotional and educational film about the construction, benefits, and use of The Sentinel 1000 Airship from Westinghouse Airship Industries (WAI).

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Film opens with var. clips demonstrating the constant changes and turbulence experienced during the 1980's - men marching together looks like a workers protest; diplomats at a round table, gray clouds of dust from a bombing, tilt down on a huge crowd at a political rally, stock trading floor, natural disasters
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Var clips of surveillance aircraft flying, radar tower, computer control room, fighter jets
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WS at sunset, the Sentinel 1000 Airship
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CU Var shots an Airship in flight with WAI graphic on its side "Westinghouse Airship Industries" - unseen narration explaining the uses, construction, and benefits of an Airship
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Renderings of the evolution over time of Airships
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Graphic diagram of today's airship
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Pilot at the cockpit of an Airship
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Thumbnails of two other aircraft and the Airship within the frame. CU on The Westinghouse Airship image.
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CU Westinghouse Airship in the air- giant W graphic logo on its side
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Historic footage of United States Navy Airships during World War II doing surveillance flying over the ocean, surveilling on submarines and enemy ships.
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Historic footage of six Navy Airships hovering in the air.
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Footage of Airships in hangars on board ships - narrator unseen explains the main cause of damage to the airships moving in and out of them
00:03:34 117.62 thumbnail
Modern Westinghouse Airship in the air
00:03:43 127.12 thumbnail
WS and airship in the air barely seen against bright shining sun
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Modern airship parked on open field. Hanger in the bkgd then disappears - modern airships need no hangars
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POV inside an airship. Pilot in the cockpit
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CU hand on control system and shot of the underside of an airship in the air - yellow lines pointing to the fiber optic control systems
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Rendering of the open back of the airship - arrows pointing in - with narration unseen explaining the low pressure of helium gas providing lift but prevents rapid escape of helium
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Various renderings of the airship and explanations by unseen narrator about the efficient ways it operates and its safety
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Engineering crew seen at work inside the airship working with technology and maps. Pilots inside the cockpit.
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Various shots from different point of view of the airship
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rendering of the interior of the airship's envelope, arrows demonstrating the flow of air around the ship,
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Westinghouse Airship slowly taking off from airfield
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Three thumbnails one of the Westinghouse Airship and two other aircraft overlay cloudy sky
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Ground crew air marshaller guiding an Airship on landing field
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Various renderings showing how Westinghouse reduces crew requirements for the Airship.
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rendering of "bow thrusters" enabling the aircraft to operate from different landscapes with a limited crew
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Airship flying through dark clouds as narrator unseen explains it operates with no problem in bad weather.
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Thumbnail of airship, with printed list of its benefits and uses
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Pilot in cockpit
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Airship flying over the ocean and above a ship in the water.
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CU of cameras, electric optical systems
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Z'out from pilot in cockpit to crew in back of the airship; computer screens inside the aircraft reflecting a ship in the ocean
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A street in a residential city area devastated by a natural disaster, rubble from broken down buildings is seen, a worker in front of broken down home.
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Airborne the modern WAI airship pov from the ground up
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Pilot in cockpit looking at computer screen
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Pilot in cockpit looking at paperwork and flying over lush green forested landscape
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Modern Westinghouse Airship in thumbnail as the cost benefits of its features are written
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WS the modern WAI Airship in flight
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