Ferry Pilot (1941 film)

Ferry Pilot is a British short documentary film produced in 1941 about the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).

[3] The film starts with the commander of one of ATA ferry pools and his assistant receiving telephone calls about aircraft to be moved between factories and airfields and working out pilot rosters.

The movements of two pilots, an older Englishman and a young American as they are transported to a factory in an ATA Avro Anson to collect two Supermarine Spitfires for delivery to an RAF base somewhere in England.

The two land, unaware that they came close to being attacked by German aircraft, and are picked up by another ATA crew to return to their base.

[4] The Times described the film as having "an attractively deceptive casualness about it", not indulging in heroics but paying "an admirable tribute to a service about which the public knows little.