Interior of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC). Navigator checks the course of the aircraft. Pilot in cockpit of the plane.
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.
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