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 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