Soldiers blocking road because of woodland fires in Maine. Volunteers running. Houses on fire. People flee for their lives. People try to stop fire.
Models and drawings of futuristic planes in the Air Force Laboratories at Wright Field, Ohio. Scenes of XP-67 aircraft in flight. A Northrup N9MB Experimental Flying Wing aircraft taxiing and in flight. A larger version, the XB-35 aircraft under construction. The XB-35 taking off. P-82 aircraft taxiing and taking off. Pilot in P-82. P-82 in flight. The XB-36 aircraft being assembled for its initial test flight, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth, Texas. XB-36 taking off from the Convair factory runway, at Fort Worth, Texas, and then in flight, with landing gear (of two 110-inch single tires) extended. View from above it as XB-36 lands at Eglin Air Field (one of only three airfields capable of bearing its high pressure wheel loading, which required concrete 22 inches thick). Officers standing by the tire of the XB-36 aircraft . B-50 aircraft taxiing and taking off. B-50 buzzing field. Demonstration of variable pitch propeller operation, including the blades going into full feather position. B-50 in flight on one engine, with props on engines 1,3, and 4 feathered. Testing landing gear on C-69 aircraft. C-69 landing. Testing landing gear of B-32 aircraft. Wind tunnels. Series of shots of wind tunnel.
Oyster seed fishers harvest young oysters. Man works. Young oysters in a container. Man uses a shovel to put ice in the barrels containing oysters. Man gets more barrels from outside the storage house. Water is poured into the container. Man moves the barrel.
Oyster seed fishers catch young oysters from James River. Two men on a boat fish for oysters. Shovels are used to catch oysters. The boat approaches a larger fishing trawler and oysters are transferred onto the big boat. Pile of oysters on the boat.
Boat underway at James River with a pile of oysters. Another small boat approaches the boat with oysters. Men sort oysters with shovels on boat. Bow of the boat. House on the bank. A man comes out of the house and looks out to the river.
A flight of Hughes XF-11 aircraft over California. The aircraft being pulled by a tug, on which a number of airport workers are riding. The aircraft in level flight, clean, with gear and flaps up. U.S. Air Force insignia painted on fuselage. Pilot visible in forward tandem seat of bubble cockpit. Several views of XF-11 aircraft in flight with landing gear extended. several views of the XF-11 in level flight with landing gear retracted and then of the aircraft in process of lowering landing gear, main gear first, followed by nose gear.