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The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
October, 1962, U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, tail number 56-6707, of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, lands at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. View of Photographic evidence, brought back by the U-2, showing Soviet missiles being set up in Cuba. President John F. kennedy broadcasts to the nation about the crisis on October 22, 1962, announcing measures being taken by the USA to address the situation. A B-58 Hustler bomber landing. Airmen removing camera from nose of a reconnaissance aircraft. Air Force Sergeant, photo interpreter, reading wet film in a base laboratory. U.S. Naval officers and sailors in Command Center viewing large wall map of the world. U.S. Air Force SAC B-52 bombers taking off. View of United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. On October 25, 1962, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin about missiles in Cuba.He looks at Zorin, and says,"Don't wait for the translation, yes, or no." Zorin smiles as the room fills with laughter. He then responds. View of a Soviet ship bound for Cuba being monitored by a U.S. aircraft overhead. Pilot in cockpit of the aircraft. View from U.S. aircraft flying low past a Soviet ship. Crew in cockpit of the aircraft. Soviet ships turning away. Helicopter flying over sandy beach area of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The helicopter parked and Undersecretary of State, Averell Harriman, steps from the helicopter and is later seen with President Kennedy, and Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, at the President's Weekend White House. Harriman reports on the successful negotiation of a limited nuclear test ban treaty. Glimpse of Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister,Andrei Gromyko, and British Foreign secretary, Alexander Douglas-Home, are seen signing the document for their respective nations, August 5, 1963.
A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in flight in the United States.
United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 aircraft assigned to Strategic Air Command's 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing for filter duct calibration flight testing. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in flight in the United States. Clouds in the sky. 'United States Air Force' painted on the aircraft. Right side aerial views of the U-2 aircraft, which is U-2A-1 “HASP”, USAF, 66714, 4080th, SRW Laughlin Air Force Base.
United States Air Force video debunking Roswell incident.
An anonymous UFO enthusiast talking. Aerial view of a deserted area near Roswell. Slate reads “Mufon 1992 International UFO Symposium Proceedings UFOs: The ultimate mystery of the millennia”. Anthropomorphic dummies mistaken as alien remains. Photographs of dummies used on high altitude experiments by the USAF. A Crash Test Dummies “Dummy Cam” PSA commercial by the United States Department of Transport and the Ad Council from the 80s-90s. A pair of crash test dummies inside a car. Vince the Crash Test Dummy adjusts his “Dummy Cam”. Car crashes into different places from crash test dummy’s perspective. Scientists prepare a crash test dummy in the 1950s. Two USAF personnel poses with an anthropomorphic test device (ATD). An ATD is released from a high altitude. A dummy is ejected from a fighter. An ATD descent with a parachute. A large high-altitude balloon is inflated and ascends. White balloon with dummies climbs upwards. A dummy is released from balloon. Camera attached to dummy shows its POV during descent. A dummy with a parachute land in a desert. USAF Test Pilot Captain Joseph William Kittinger II before a test flight. A high-altitude balloon ascends, carrying a module containing Captain Kittinger. A high-altitude balloon floats in the sky. A man opens a December 1960 National Geographic magazine. A page reads “The Long Lonely Leap” featuring Kittinger. LIFE, Collier’s, and TIME magazines covers feature Kittinger. Movie poster of 1956 drama “On the Threshold of Space”. Air Force personnel, aircraft, and other equipment are featured on film. A sign at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Deflated high altitude balloons in the desert. A diagram depicts the size comparison of a balloon and a DC-9 airliner. High-altitude balloons carry scientific devices from the Holloman Air Force Base. A man prepares a payload attached to a high-altitude balloon. Space probes from NASA. A large container labeled “Viking Project Langley Research Center”. USAF high-altitude balloons carrying various NASA equipment (resembling “flying saucers”). Roswell Industrial Air Center. A “flying saucer”-like device lands in a desert. Payloads after landing in desert west of Roswell. Scientists read data from a large computer. Sign reads “Welcome to Holloman Air Development Center”. Recovery personnel hands over a permit. Photographs of United States Air Force trucks and recovery crews working on the ground and on aircraft. A bomber approaching a balloon. Photographs of USAF Balloon branch personnel with locals. Balloon branch personnel use tractors and pack mules. A dummy attached to a high-altitude balloon in flight. Crowds gather to watch descent of payload. Deflated high-altitude balloon hang on a grove of trees. A high-altitude balloon in flight over Phoenix, Arizona on June 13, 1985. The high-altitude balloon after landing on the Gila River Indian Community. A box attached to the parachute lands on the desert. A man inspects a scientific payload. USAF personnel arrive to the scene. Air Force personnel talks about the scientific payload. Low altitude tethered balloons launched from Holloman Air Force Base in flight. Men inspect a balloon on the runway of Holloman Air Force Base. A UFO book by Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle. A drawing of a crashed “spaceship”. Comparison between the drawing and a photograph of an experimental tethered balloon. Airman uncovers the aluminum foil cover of a module (Project Man High June 2, 1957). Captain Kittinger waving. A photograph of Colonel Kittinger with President Eisenhower. Captain Kittinger performs a record-breaking parachute jump from Excelsior III (August 16, 1960). Captain Kittinger jumps from a gondola. Captain Kittinger climbs on an aircraft. Kittinger puts on an aviation headset. A McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in flight. An indicator locating target in flight during the Vietnam War. Target hits a Vietnamese fighter, exploding in flight. “Triple Nickel Phantom II” logo. Colonel Kittinger returns to the United States from Vietnam. Colonel Kittinger gives a speech after his return from captivity. Colonel Kittinger on his solo crossing of the Atlantic by balloon. Pallbearers hold the United States flag over a coffin during a full honors funeral. A Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter towing another aircraft in flight. A Report of AF Aircraft Accident. Walker Air Force Base entrance near Roswell. USAF Hospital inside Walker Air Force Base. Project Excelsior backup pilots in gondola. Photograph of Captain Dan B. Fulgham, a survivor of a 1959 balloon accident near Roswell. A United States Air Force Chase Helicopter transporting patients to Walker Air Force Base. Sign reads “Warning Restricted Area”. Captain Kittinger speaks to instructor pilot at night. Captain Fulgham with head wrap due to injuries. Clinical record cover sheet for Captain Fulgham. Captain Fulgham in spacesuit. Captain Fulgham holding a ladder leaning on an aircraft.
U-2D taxis and takes off at McCoy AFB, Orlando, Florida, during Cuban Missile Crisis
Lockheed U-2D aircraft, number 56-6695, of the U.S. Air Force 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, taxis to runway at McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Airmen remove Pogo wheels from wing tips of U2. Aircraft takes off and climbs rapidly in nose high attitude. The U-2 in flight. (Note: U-2D, number 56-6695 Crashed on 7 July 1964 near Fujian, China while monitoring supply routes from China to North Vietnam.)
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
Observers at NORAD keep a track on targets and a technician operates Bendix 101 in a computer room in the United States.
A USAF film report on AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar shows the installation and checkout of equipment in the structure located at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida, United States. An array monitor display and a technician checks the operational status of individual module. Two technicians install a video display console. A U.S. Air Force C-131B Samaritan military transport aircraft parked at a base. The aircraft in flight. A structure at the Eglin AFB. Vintage 1960s electronic control terminals and equipment for missile defense during the Cold War. A technician operates a signal processor. The technician presses buttons on the processor. Technicians operate a radar programmer. A technician seated on a chair operates Bendix 101 computer. A document is printed in a printing machine. The technician speaks on a phone. Another technician carries a document. Technicians operate IBM 7044 computer and shows the memory drum and high speed printer. A technician operates the controls. A screen on the computer shows the position of all unknown objects. The technician notes down the phased array radar data. Exterior of building in Colorado Springs with sign "NORAD Combat Operations Center" at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. USAF personnel come out of the building of North American Air Defense Center (NORAD). Observers and technicians in the Spacetrack Control Center seated at their tracking stations. An observer speaks on a phone. The observers keep a track on all targets and missiles using the NORAD aerospace warning and tracking systems. Exterior view of the FPS-85 radar array structure at Eglin AFB (The site C-6 Air Force Space Command radar station). A technician operates Bendix 101 computer. Technicians at work in the center. The array radar. Animation depicts the future of the space and capacity of AN/FPS-85 Spacetrack Radar to track objects. Vintage 1960s animation showing various satellite systems in space orbit.
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