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The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio.

The Army Air Forces demonstrate a new method of towing gliders in Dayton Ohio. A tow-bar is used in place of the longer cable. A man attaching tow-bar to glider. Plane takes off towing the glider.

Date: 1947, October 23
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034466
Procurement officers attend the Army Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.

The Army Air Force Institute in Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Students attend the classes. Exteriors of experimental laboratories at Wright Field. Student observes laboratory tests of materials. Various equipment in laboratory. Procurement officers in the factory. 'Operations Altitude 300' building at Wright Field. A plane taxis and takes off.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052261
Ground-breaking ceremony for expansion, including new runway, at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.

U.S. Air Force Material Command headquartered at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Aerial photograph of Wright Field highlights new construction planned. People assembled out in the field for ground-breaking ceremony. U.S. Army Air Force officers shaking hands at start of ground-breaking ceremony. One officer speaks using microphone on a tripod. Heavy construction equipment in background. One officer performs the traditional ground-breaking, using a spade with a large ribbon tied to it.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075677
Cargo being loaded by winch in side door and jeep being loaded by elevator in a C-74 aircraft at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

U.S. Air Force C-74 Globemaster cargo aircraft at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. A C-74 Globemaster parked at Wright Field. Several ground crew stand in wheel well under No.3 engine of the aircraft. A ground crewman works on the tail of the C-74 aircraft, which displays the identification number: 265402 . No. 2 engine and open side door of the aircraft. A loadmaster stands in the open doorway with cable winch control in his hand. Man on ground secures cargo which loadmaster then raises with electrical winch .A jeep being loaded using platform elevator at underside of the C-74 Globemaster. Cargo hold of the aircraft with jeep being lifted up by elevator. Loadmaster secures elevator platform and then closes bottom cargo doors. Jeep is driven several feet forward inside the cargo compartment.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075678
Views of USAF C-74 aircraft. Instrument panel, cockpit, maintenance access, takeoff, landing, flying on only two engines

A U.S. Air Force C-74 Globemaster cargo aircraft at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Flight engineer's Instrument panel in the C-74 aircraft with view of cockpit to the left, with double bubble windows. Loran set screen seen to left of the cockpit, at Navigators station. Exterior view. "Beetle" double cockpit windows clearly visible. Crewmen examine nose wheel. Interior of cockpit, with main flight control wheel and, to its left, at knee position of pilot, the nose wheel steering wheel can be seen. Flight engineer opens hatch in floor of cargo compartment and crawls through superstructure of aircraft to perform maintance. C-74 takes off, retracting landing gear as it climbs out. Several views of C-74 in flight, including one accompanied by another aircraft, and one in which it is operating on only two engines, with engines number 3 and 4 shutdown and feathered. C-74, descending for landing, with landing gear extended. It touches down quite long on the runway and appears to employ reverse thrust on its engines during ground roll.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075679