United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrives on a visit to India. Scene of a gate. A hilly region. People on a bullock cart. A man takes a small child in lap. A child on a woman’s shoulder. Farmers in a field. Statues carved at Khajuraho temple (VW2C+QJQ, Airport Area, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh 471606, India). Decorated and carved gates. Colorful paintings on walls. Women play sitar and tabla. A traffic policeman gives directions to traffic and shows 'Stop' sign. Students and teachers in a college. Carpenter and a mechanic at work. Large crowd. National emblem of India on a gate. Guards on horses. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India in a horse driven chariot in the Parliament premises. Air India plane lands at New Delhi airport. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi meet Jacqueline Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill and the American Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith talks to Prime Minister Nehru. Children clap. United States Embassy in India. Ambassador Galbraith and Jacqueline Kennedy in Embassy. Prime Minister Nehru talks with Jackie Kennedy in a garden. Jackie Kennedy buys a silk sari. A girl welcomes her with garland in Benares. A man answers her questions during visit to an art gallery. She meets Indira Gandhi. Mrs. Kennedy meets Indian artists and addresses the people present. Jackie Kennedy puts a garland on an elephant's neck as a ritual.
Tug tows Northrop F-15 Reporter into hangar in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be instrumented for Project Thunderstorm. Various scenes of electrical equipment used in making man-made lightning, including a generator made up of hundreds of transformers, and a connected massive generator for producing high voltage. A large oscillograph is shown along with a smaller oscillograph designed for airborne use. A scientist is seen inside the giant generator. Artificial lightning tests are made on canopy of the F-15 occupied by a scientist, and the canopy remains intact following lightning strike. Lightning rods are attached to lightning-vulnerable nose, tail fin, and wing tip locations of the Project Thunderstorm aircraft. Pilot climbs into canopy of F-15. Airborne F-15 project aircraft seen in flight headed toward area of dark clouds. In Ohio at Clinton County Army Air Field, a project officer (AAF Captain) describes how search procedures of the pilot, weather observer, and radar observer are coordinated and key locations of radar and cooperating facilities at Jamestown and the Clinton County Army Airfield. Large radar antenna revolving on top of large tower, scanning for signs of thunderstorms. Radar antenna scanning vertically, near Quonset huts. Command center inside a quonset hut with project personnel at radar scopes and thunderstorm and aircraft positions plotted on large plexiglass screens. Technician adjust motion picture camera that photographs radar scopes every four seconds. Operator at vertical measuring instrument, showing reflected returns from targets, on July 18, 1947. View of operator at plan position indicator radar scope showing weather returns on June 6, 1947. Ground Control Approach (GCA) truck located near end of airfield to guide landings of Thunderstorm aircraft. Radio operators sitting at radar scopes inside the GCA unit. P-61 makes GCA approach and landing in good weather, to maintain skills needed when weather is bad. Briefing officer at blackboard cites radio channels to be used for various purposes. View of AAF aircrews in audience.
U.S. Strategic Air Command B-52 crew members performing preflight checks at their stations aboard the aircraft, on the ground at Kadena Airbase, Okinawa, Japan. Navigator uses an E6-B circular slide rule computer to calculate flight parameters and checks his mission chart using a pair of compasses. Flight engineer goes through preflight checks at his panel.
Sailors at control board. Firing depth charges off bow of ship in Germany. Depth charges in air and falling in the water, and cause explosions. USS Frament underway. Destroyer Escort underway leaves a pattern of exploded depth charges in water. Sailors loading depth charges and firing same. Sailor using talker for firing depth charges. (World War II period).
P-51 aircraft on ramp in United States. Civilian operating large generator. Scene of testing instrument. A plane on ramp. Engine mechanic working on C-82 aircraft . B-29 aircraft and C-82 aircraft in hangar. Engine Mechanic testing protective clothing in water. Engine Mechanic being hoisted into air by L-4 aircraft.
Writing on nose of 313th Bomb Wiing B-29 Superfortress aircraft (named "Enola Gay") that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2. The aircraft is parked on Tinian Island, Marianas Islamds. The writing reads "First Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima -August 6, 1945." [Note: At some point this writing was removed, because it is not seen on the nose of the Enola Gay, displayed at at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museaum Annex (The World War II Aviation exhibition at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.)]
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