A large group of retired Air Force officers are seen seated at a number of tables during a luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 endurance record setting flight of the Fokker C-2A aircraft named "Question Mark." The event is in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeup of General Carl Spaatz, addressing the group from a podium. Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are listening, along with Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who,in October 1963, was aircraft commander on the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Lieutenant General Ira Eaker addresses the group next. Closeup of him and of General Spaatz tilting his head to hear. The audience applauding. Sergeant Roy Hooe then addresses the group. The clip ends as the luncheon ends and the participants socialize.
Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United Sates. An instrumented Air Force student at the Aerospace Research Pilot school is tested on a treadmill. He has monitoring instruments on his wrists and in a belt around his waist, and walks at a steady pace. Camera focuses on his feet as he keeps steady pace. The treadmill begins to slow at the very end of the film.
F-104 Starfighter of the U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in United States. Two F-104s make a low pass over Edwards Air Force Base. Contrail left out by them. Insignia of United States. The planes in flight. F-104s invisible after a while.
Aerospace Research Pilot School in United Sates. Brigadier General James Stewart with a researcher at a laboratory. A microscope on table. General Stewart looks through microscope. He talks to the researcher and looks again in microscope. They continue conversing and Stewart looks into the microscope several times. Closeup of Stewart looking into the microscope.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Board reads 'Air Force Flight Test Center'. Early model(1933) blue Coupe on the road. Other vehicles parked in the background at Edwards Air Force Base. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest gets out of the car and enters the building. Sign on a door reads 'Through these portals pass the oldest and boldest pilots in the world'. Frank Everest takes a seat at his desk and reads documents.
The accidents and the unusual occurrences at the Air Force flight test center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The inflated pads being tested for arrester hook landings. The United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes a zero length launch. The United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes approach to the pad and overshooting to belly landing. The F-84G Thunderjet makes a pass with no hookup. The United States Air Force(USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes belly lading on pads. Aerial view of the F-84G Thunderjet nose during approach and landing on pads.
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