A field grade U.S. Air Force officer at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, is seated in an office. Behind him on the wall is a large map of the Atlantic ocean with concentric rings on it, centered at Bermuda. He receives a paper report and makes a phone call. An airman at a communications center receives teletype messages and leaves to deliver them. Scene shifts to a flight engineer sitting at his panel aboard a WB-29A aircraft of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters). The WB-29 is experiencing significant turbulence. An officer briefing a group of Air Force officers and airmen. View of 53rd Squadron area on ramp at Kindley Air Force Base. An officer briefing aircrews. A synoptic chart is mounted on front of his podium. A map of the entire Atlantic ocean and environs covers a wall behind him. To his left is a map of the South Atlantic with Bermuda highlighted at the top. a triangular air route is depicted on it. It is labeled: "Gull Hotel."
A chalkboard sketch showing anticipated course of a hurricane moving across Western part of Cuba and thence across the tip of Florida and into the Atlantic ocean. Animated schematic diagram shows colliding air masses generating counterclockwise rotation of air forming a low pressure condition-- the birth of a Hurricane.
AJ Savage planes with engines running on flight deck of USS Midway (CVB-41) in the Atlantic. AJ taxis onto the catapult. AJ on a starboard catapult catted off. AJ readied and catted off. F2H-3B plane towed onto the catapult. F2H-3B catted off port catapult.
Two AJ Savage airplanes land successively on the flight deck of USS Midway (CVB-41) aircraft Carrier in the Atlantic. F2H-3B plane lands and right tire blows out. Following F2H-3B has to execute go-around. It lands after the first F2H is cleared from the deck. An AJ Savage on final approach is waved off and goes around. It makes a somewhat rough landing.
U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Midway (CVB-41). Activity on flight deck which is crowded with North American AJ (A-2) Savage twin engine prop aircraft. Also seen are an F9F Panther and an F2H-3B jet. An F2H jet is set on a catapult. (It has number 57 painted on nose and XC on its tail.) Flight Deck Crew members surround the aircraft. Under deck crew direction, the nose of aircraft is raised to an elevated attitude. Deck crew clears away from the aircraft, launch officer signals, and the F2H-3B aircraft catapults from the ship's deck.
A North American AJ (A-2) aircraft makes a long low final approach and lands on the flight deck of USS Midway CVB-41 in the Atlantic.