An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins at the International Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In Convention taking place at Oshkosh in Wisconsin USA where Ken was able to fly both a Fairchild PT-19 and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk for the first time since his training as a pilot during World War Two. He also flies as a passenger as part of a ‘Warbirds of America’ formation flypast recording both the airfield below and other aircraft flying nearby. In the final part of the film at Miami...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins at the International Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In Convention taking place at Oshkosh in Wisconsin USA where Ken was able to fly both a Fairchild PT-19 and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk for the first time since his training as a pilot during World War Two. He also flies as a passenger as part of a ‘Warbirds of America’ formation flypast recording both the airfield below and other aircraft flying nearby. In the final part of the film at Miami Airport in Oklahoma Ken poses with friends beside a T6-Texan. In front of a blue, white, and yellow coloured Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota a sign reads ‘Welcome. World’s Greatest Aviation Event Convention & Sport Aviation Exhibition’. Behind a fence a large field full of various aircrafts on display. In the sky an advertising air balloon reads ‘Join EAA’, below crowds walk past various displays and caravans. Various national flags fly above a large banner that reads ‘Internat’l Experimental Aircraft Assoc. Fly-in Convention’. On the airfield two men help to start a yellow-coloured Curtiss P-40 Warhawk as a Cessna taxi’s past in the foreground. A crowd look over another smaller aircraft, possibly the Aerostar BD-5J and Ken Ellwood looks over a yellow de Havilland Tiger Moth. A group of engineers looks over an engine of another aircraft while others look out from the roof of the Communication Centre. The yellow-coloured Curtiss P-40 Warhawk taxi’s past towards the runway taking off into the air followed by a Tiger Moth. Crowds walk past and admire the various ‘Warbirds of America’ aircraft on display. On another part of the field a display of smaller single-seater possibly homebuilt aircrafts, some of the owners speaking with visitors. A woman and two men push their homebuilt aircraft along a pavement, back on the airfield spectators continue looking over the various airplanes on display. A replica of the ‘Spirit of St Louis’ taxis towards the runway, writing along the fuselage reads ‘Lindbergh Commemorative Tour’. A blue and yellow Fairchild PT-19 starts its engines and taxis onto the runway followed behind by a second replica of the ‘Spirit of St Louis’. Behind them several other aircraft taxing towards the runway. The PT-19 taxis back onto the field and Ken Ellwood climbs aboard. It takes off into the air and flies around the airfield before landing and taxiing back to the start point of the flight. With the aircraft now stopped Ken climbs out, a second man coming over to speak with the pilot. The PT-19 takes off again changing to Ken at the controls of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk taxiing past. A line of small aircraft taxi towards the runway waiting for their slot to take off. As the P-40 taxis across the field a two-seater micro-light aircraft comes into land. It is pulled across the field before taking off again alongside a second micro-light. The P-40 with Ken Ellwood at the controls takes off as a series of other aircraft taxis past including a seaplane and a P-51 Mustang. A group of men stand chatting under a sign that reads ‘Warbirds of America’. Some of the men sit in deckchairs alongside family members. On the runway, a small US Navy aircraft taxis past crowds and a Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It takes off followed by a second aircraft. Pilot Steve Ramsey climbs into his T-6 Texan with Ken Ellwood in the passenger seat. From both the ground and in the passenger’s seat the T6-Texan and other aircraft in the ‘Warbirds of America’ taxi in formation towards the runway eventually taking off into the sky. Below on the ground the crowds and, nearby another aircraft flying in formation. From the ground more aircraft take off into the air to join the formation followed by the plane coming into land. American aviator Suzanne Parish sits in her pink Curtiss P-40 Warhawk before climbing out. Back on the runway more of the ‘Warbirds of America’ coming into land parking up at their assigned spaces on the airfield. Two of the pilots stand beside their aircraft chatting while in the air someone is strapped onto the wing of a de Havilland Tiger Moth as it performs stunts with aerobatic smoke coming from the rear. On a farm an aircraft spray pesticide over a field of corn changing to Miami Airport in Oklahoma and an ultralight helicopter being taxied past onto the runway and taking off. It flies around the airfield as three men, including Ken Ellwood, posing together beside an T6-Texan.