The meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds the table on the speech by UN Secretary General. He calls for the Secretary General's resignation. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold speaks on the matter. Officials applauding.
Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.
A United States Air Force Weather Service meteorologist points at a large synoptic chart and briefs about the weather, while being recorded and broadcast via television. USAF operators in a control tower as an airplane lands on a runway. To provide information to the pilots observation stations of the Air Weather Service are located at the end of the runways. A man enters an observation station. He works on equipment. Voice messages using pre recorded words translate machine weather data into understandable information for pilots.
A snow covered area. Transportable weather stations being used according to requirements. These mobile units can be transported anywhere. A man gets inside a weather station. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Parachutes being dropped from the airplane. A soldier stands holding an air balloon. Another soldier stands nearby. Humidity, temperature and air pressure are being measured. A rocket being launched for the purpose.
Military Airlift Command Air Weather Service recon aircraft are shown. A B-57 taxiing; a C-135 in flight; a C-130 in flight. View inside C-130 showing crew stations and equipment. View of B-57 used for high altitude radiation sampling.
Weather surveillance is necessary for the launching of missiles. A rocket being launched from a launching pad. Advance knowledge of air density, pressure, humidity and wind velocity is necessary for the launch. Accurate forecast is needed for the launch of manned space vehicles. Air to air refueling of aircraft. Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Officers discussing a map. Hurricane Hunters crew working on locating hurricane centers. An airplane in flight. Men seated inside the airplane.
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