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Training of air force personnel at the Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States.

The coverage of the Boeing 1960 Progress Report covering the development and production of U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress G and H models. Interior of the Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States. Special training programs are organized for air force personnel. Personnel in an ejection seat trainer. The personnel are being trained. An officer briefs them. He explains a diagram. An aircraft in flight overhead.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077283
Officials inspect United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H at Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States.

Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. The United States Air Force B-52G aircraft in flight carrying two XGAM-77 during a test flight. Activity at the Wichita Plant in Kansas. Contractors development inspection and technical compliance inspection shows mock-ups of B-52H and Gatling M-61. A crowd observes seat ejection and 20mm ammunition demonstration. A sign board reads 'Crossing' and 'Rail Road'. Railroad car with covered section of B-52 moving past a crossing. A B-52 H in assembly area showing fuselage. Roll out of the first B-52H from the hangar. Inspection of B-52H cabin controls and turbo fan engine. GAM-87 mock-up under wing of B-52H and M-61 Gatling gun.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063990
Manufacture and deployment of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers during World War II

Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056360
Airplanes are made at the Stearman factory in Wichita, Kansas.

Workers work at Stearman factory in Wichita. They construct parts of aircraft. Welders work in the factory. General layout of the Plant. Lathe workers work. Lumber storing and cutting room. Wing sections made for aircraft. Welders work. Sections of Plant handle fuselage frameworks. Workman sprays framework.

Location: Wichita Kansas USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028347
Semi completed Stearman PT-17 at the Stearman factory in Wichita Kansas.

Workers work at Stearman factory in Wichita. They construct parts of aircraft. Fuselages of Stearman PT-17 completed. Interior of factory shows semi completed Stearman PT-17's. Several rows of PT-17`s starting engines on an airbase. Men stand nearby. Cars pass on street. Aerial view of the several rows of PT-17's.

Location: Wichita Kansas USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028349
B-52G aircraft , capable of launching three different types of missiles, in flight over an area in Kansas, U.S.

The Boeing 1960 Progress Report covering the development and production of U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress G and H models. A B-52G aircraft in flight overhead in Kansas, United States. The aircraft is capable of launching three different types of missiles. The aircraft can confuse the enemy radars and air defense systems. A man working at Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas. He makes modifications in the model.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077273
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