Victory Through Air Power

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 film. 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")

Unidentified Aircraft

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.