Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is welcomed with parade at end of three month tour in his airplane 'Spirit of Saint Louis', in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men wave flags. Large crowd. Charles Lindbergh arrives at speaker's stand. His last tour stop is Mitchel Field, New York (he embarked on that flight leg on October 23, 1927).
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at Saint Louis, Missouri. F-4J test flight aircraft #155557 MAC 2833 lifts off from runway, climbs steeply and goes into a vertical attitude. Pilot and co-pilot eject. Plane continues climbing and levels off. F-4J crashes, wheels down, and explodes into a big fireball. Black smoke billows upward from flames, and drifts upward. (Both crew members survived the ejection: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.)
United States Air Force VIPs and officers listen to a speech during the roll-out and christening of F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter aircraft in Saint Louis, Missouri. VIPs include Assistant Air Force Secretary (R&D) Grant L. Hansen and his wife, General William Momyer (TAC), General George Brown (AFSC), General Jack Catton (MAC), General Jack Merrell (AFLC), Lieutenant General George Simler (ATC), Lieutenant General James Stewart (ASD); Lieutenant General Otto F. Glasser (DC8) - R&D), Major General Benjamin Bellis (F-15 SPO), and Brigadier General Donald Nunn (USAF Contract Management Div). Cameramen record the event with cameras. Banner above cameramen and crowd reads “United States Air Force 25th Anniversary”. A United States Air Force official makes a speech. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter taxiing to display position on ramp. The pilot on the F-15 aircraft debarking. He shakes hands with Mrs. Iris Rose Hansen, wife of Grant L. Hansen.
Mrs. Iris Rose Hansen, wife of Assistant Air Force Secretary (R&D) Grant L. Hansen christens a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter in Saint Louis, Missouri. United States Air Force generals and VIPs witness the christening event. A “No Smoking” sign is seen behind the USAF VIPs. Grant L. Hansen talks to his wife on the tarmac after the aircraft christening. A general speaks to other officials. Some VIPs inspect the cockpit and body of the F-15 fighter.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh flies the air mail from St Louis to Chicago. 200,000 letters loaded from a mail truck into the plane. Lindbergh takes his place in the cockpit. A crowd around parked planes.
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