“WINGS AROUND THE CONTINENT” FEMALE PILOT TRAVELOGUE OF MEXICO, BELIZE, WESTERN USA 67234

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit This film “Wings Around the Continent“ is an amateur made travelogue showing an epic flight to Mexico and the Western USA made by Paul-Gwen Zimmerman in a Piper Navajo airplane. We don’t know much about this pilot, although it is likely this is Gwen Zimmerman, a former resident of Muncie, Indiana and a graduate of Ball State University who became chairwoman of the Suncoast 99’s. The film is presented in silent format; originally it was narrated on a magnetic soundtrack. 00:10 Title 00:52 Paul-Gwen Zimmerman checks oil on plane at Muncie, Indiana. 01:18 She examines propellers and does ground check 1:49 Propellers gain speed. 02:08 Plane on tarmac. 02:17 Plane glides through air. 02:47 Commercial jet speeds down runway for takeoff. Shot pans across tarmac to female pilot walking by smaller plane. 03:06 Female pilot looks out from cockpit. 03:13 Aerial shot of landscape. 03:23 POV from cockpit: Approach la