An eight day clock on aircraft instrument panel. U.S. Air Force flight crew member packing gear, including cold weather clothing into his A-3 flight bag. Cargo being by means of the elevator into the cargo compartment of a Second Strategic Support Squadron C-124 Globemaster tail # 49-244, at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. B-36 strategic bomber seen in background. The men and equipment are headed to the Strategic Air Command's 509th Bomb Wing Forward Detachments at RAF Stations Mildenhall and Lakenheath, in England. (Note: This same aircraft, performing the same mission, successfully ditched in the North Atlantic on 23 Mar 1951, but no passengers or crew were ever recovered.).
Close-up sector scan on a radar scope. Two airmen in radar installation at an Air Base. Antenna on roof rotating.
A U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36 towed by a tug on an airfield. A crew member walks towards nose gear section of B-36. B-36 in flight and formations of B-3s. Animated map shows enemy territories across the world, and B-36s dropping bombs, wiping out enemy cities. Formation of four B-36 aircraft over clouds.
Two U.S. Air Force Airmen mechanics discuss maintenance of a B-36 of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). (In the background is B-36D with BM 652 (49-2652), reportedly nicknamed 'Petty Girl'. It was from the 7th BG, 9th BS, Carswell AFB, outside Fort Worth, Texas). They walk beneath the wing of B-36 toward aircraft undergoing maintenence. An aircrew member (Aircraft commander?) walks toward a B-36 and speaks to an airman holding a clipboard with maintenance record about the aircraft. The crewman converses briefly with the airman and then signs the document.
Views of Minneapolis-Honeywell factory area during dusk. Lights in building and automobiles driving through streets.
Two technicians assembling a camera and instrument equipped photographic gondola for high altitude balloon probe. Technicians varnishing and painting it. After instrumentation, two halves of gondola are fitted together.
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