WB-29 Hurricane Hunter aircraft, of the 59th Weather reconnaissance Flight, landing at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. Aerial views of storm clouds. View from inside a building. Pilot in cockpit of WB-29 appears to be flying in turbulent conditions. The pilot, later seen, eating a sandwich and drinking from a cup while monitoring the controls of the aircraft.
A captain and a Lieutenant,in the flight operations office of the USAF 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. They are planning a flight. The captain holds a large E6B computer which he uses to calculate aircraft headings compensated for wind. He reads these headings to the lieutenant who writes them on their flight plan. They place the flight plan in a brief case when finished. View of a navigator's hand using a pair of dividers to measure on an aeronautical chart (possibly a Loran chart). A Weems plotter is seen laying on the chart.
A WB-50D Weather aircraft from the USAF 59th Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) is silhouetted against a gray sky as it takes off from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. at sundown. Another one, tail number 50-4040, takes off. Both aircraft use long takeoff runs and slow rates of climb after breaking ground.
A WB-50D Weather aircraft from the USAF 59th Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) takes off from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda.It's landing gear is still down as it approaches the camera at end of the runway, But it raises as it passes overhead. The sequence is seen again from a different camera. In both sequences, the aircraft is seen to crab to the left, compensating for a slight crosswind, as it tracks along the runway after airborne.
View of clouds and of numbers 3 and 4 engines, running, from cockpit of airborne WB-50D aircraft. Stratiform clouds seen below. Pilot at the controls. Another crew member seen at window in right side of the aircraft. View of WB-50D right wing from the rear. Two dropsondes are released and fall away from the aircraft. A lieutenant (copilot) demonstrating turbulence at the controls, and then eating lunch in the cockpit. The WB-50D of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) landing at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. Storm clouds seen in background.
View from cockpit of WB-29 aircraft, from 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight, on final approach to runway 30 at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. The sun has almost set and the runway lights are lit. The camera stops filming at touchdown. A dropsonde operator seated inside the aircraft. He records telemetered information in a form. The hand of the dropsonde operator as he releases the dropsonde from an airlock. Officer in makeshift office sitting in front of a wrinkled map. Arrows on map highlight Eastern U.S. Interior of B-29 aircraft. A flight engineer making notes in a log. Navigator checking a Loran set and marking information on charts.
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