Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California. Airman hand signals aircraft. F-14 taxis along flight deck. A-7B Corsair II aircraft taxis as seen from elevator. Airman prepares aircraft for take off. Front view of aircraft warming up along flight deck of USS Ranger. F-14 Tomcat warms up on deck.
Activities aboard USS Ranger in Alameda, California. Aircraft warms up along flight deck of USS Ranger. A-6 Aircraft catapulted from flight deck. F-14 Tomcat aircraft of VF-1 Wolfpack Squadron taxis. A-6 aircraft taxis.
Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.
Black Panther Party members sing and chant "No more brothers in jail" and "No more Pigs in our community" outside the Alameda County Court House building in Oakland California. Members join in chorus. Helmeted police officers come out of the courthouse and take up defensive positions backed against a granite arrives to maintain law and order. Singer chant "The revolution has come, time to pick up the guns." African American man speaks in his office for the rights of black Americans. Black panther party members march, saluting the 'black power' fist salute as they march. Black Panther members gather together with Peace and Freedom Party members (Peace & Freedom party) to talk about civil rights and government, and to demonstrate together for release of Black Panther leader Huey Newton. "Free Huey" signs seen. Black Panther members and hippies talking. Book titled 'Venceremos' by Che Guevara is shown leaning on window beside speaker.
Scrap of damaged airplanes being used for manufacturing new aircraft at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. An aircraft in a hoist. A heap of wrecked aircraft parts. Women look at an aircraft. Men pull out metal pieces from the scrap to be used for manufacturing new aircraft. Butch O'Hare's aircraft also being used for the purpose. Metal pieces being piled up at the air station.
Airman along catwalk of USS Ranger. Men walk in the background along flight deck. Landing gears of A-7B Corsair II aircraft while it taxis along flight deck. Airman climbs up from catwalk to carrier's flight deck. Trucks and aircraft parked along flight deck. F-14 Tomcat aircraft taxis along flight deck. Pilots get out of plane.
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