Little Johnny Jet
1953
Animation / Comedy / Family
Little Johnny Jet
1953
Animation / Comedy / Family
6.8/10
666
Plot summary
A veteran B-29 propeller plane, struggling to find work after the war, is upset after his wife gives birth to a little jet. When he tries to compete with modern planes in an around-the-world race, Junior comes to his aid. This short is virtually identical in plot terms and other items to One Cab's Family (1952), but this time around, it concerns a family of aeroplanes, and the problems Mom and Pop have with Junior, whose obsession with speed leads him to acquire a jet engine.
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Alright, so your son is a jet!
"Old planes never fly . . .
" . . . They just fade away," this expose of waste in U. S. military procurement states, somewhat inaccurately. Aviation "bone-yards" dot the American Southwest, chock full of everything from most of the original squadrons the Pentagon ordered from the Wright Brothers to a saucer for every cupcake in Area 51. LITTLE JOHNNY JET's forebears have one foot in the desert by the time this story begins, and its outcome seems likely to do little to delay their inevitable descent into the Way of All Flight.