United States Navy training film shows in flight operations of Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, in the United States. Douglas F4D-1 Skyray aircraft in flight. View of the ground below. Aircraft stall preceded as the speed is increased. High speed flight and maneuvers of Douglas F4D-1 Skyray.
United States Navy training film shows the approach and landing of Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, in the United States. Douglas F4D-1 Skyray aircraft in flight. Pilot checks the landing checklist. He operates the control panel. Animation shows the landing pattern. Pilot puts the landing gear down on approaching the runway for landing. Douglas F4D-1 Skyray aircraft lands and taxis on the runway. Aircraft takes off at high speed in case of a wave off. Another aircraft lands on the runway.
United States Navy training film shows ground operations of Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, in the United States. Douglas F4D-1 Skyray aircraft being parked on ground after landing. Securing of the aircraft done on landing. Ground crew member gives hand signals. Pilot operates the controls in the cockpit. He double checks the shut down check list. All engines switches set to off. Pilot disembarks from the cockpit and signs the Navy yellow sheet form for maintenance of the aircraft.
United States conducts nuclear test shot "Zuni" as part of Operation Redwing nuclear tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds. Bright flash appears due to the Zuni shot bomb blast, the first ever of a three-stage thermonuclear design. Huge fireball boils upward into the sky. Spots of fire in sky as darkness spreads. Zuni was a 3.5 Megaton Hydrogen bomb with 85% of its yield from fusion. This was a companion test to the "dirty" (87% fission) Tewa shot using the same bomb design.
An F-86 offloaded from a ship in Japan. Six F-86s on the dock. American and Japanese mechanics work on aircraft under lights on airbase.One of the aircraft has Japanese red ball insignia on fuselage. Japanese and American mechanics working on jet engines in a hangar, with an American aircraft in background. American pilot briefs Japanese flyers before a training mission. F-86s lined up on ramp, ready to start. Fuel trucks and tanks in background. American Flight leader raises hand and circles in air to signal engine start. They taxi out. The flight of 4 F-86s is seen in formation above clouds.
Establishing a new Kibbutz in Israel. Men raise an Israeli flag on a partially constructed base of a tower in Israel. A family with two children prepares a flag identifying the new Community, which is then raised next to the Israeli flag on the tower base. Community members laying out the boundaries of parts of the Kibbutz and drive fence posts. Two men carry a barbed wire roll across the field. A woman stands in the field. Surveyor uses tape and sights to ascertain boundaries. Two young women unroll spool of barbed wire. Men work and build houses. Community members unload prefabricated roof trusses and other sections of a building. Many members work together to raise a prefabricated wall section of building on foundation of concrete blocks. A worker sets concrete blocks along prospective perimeter of the structure. Community members set up an adjoining wall section and continue to complete the outer perimeter walls. Kibbutz members are seen around large tents that are set up nearby. A quick view from atop the tower structure shows the partially completed construction and the encampment.