Assignment Jet Colorama – Air to Air Photoshoot US Navy Blue Angels F-11 Tigers

In the early 1960s this film was made to show the planning that went into the air-to-air photoshoot of the US Navy Blue Angels Grumman F-11 Tigers for a huge billboard that appeared on Kodak’s famed “colorama” in Grand Central Station in New York City.

Aviation photographer Ralph Andersky went to the US Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida to meet up with the Blue Angels team where he planned with the pilots of the Grumman F-11 Tigers, and the Lockheed P-2 Neptune that would be used as the chase plane for the inflight photo shoot. A massive camera was also installed in through the belly of the Neptune for the photoshoot which was pre loaded with 40 feet of negative film for the photoshoot flight.