U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft lands in Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze. A person enters a National Science Foundation Center. People disembark the plane. Unload the equipment. Numerous vehicles at the base. Plane takes off with the shipment to Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California. Scripps Institute of Oceanography conducts research for the National Science Foundation. Frank S Todd of the Hubbs Sea World Research Institute talks about the airlifting of penguins by C-141 used for behavioral studies.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program titled 'Heirs of Victory' depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Introduction by Brigadier General James C. Pfautz, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Pfautz gives details about the subject, translation, narration, and editing. The Soviet Communist hammer and sickle symbol. A Soviet long winged early warning radar keeps a watch in the sky. Soviet Air Force MiG-25 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) interceptor bombers with air to air missiles. Pilots board aircraft and they take off. The aircraft in flight. Soviet missiles and rockets protect the borders. World War II Soviet Air Force fighter pilot Nikolai Kozmoff talks to highly trained young Soviet pilots at a air base.
View of a busy traffic scene with automobiles and a passenger bus emitting air pollution in the United States. Highways filled with bumper to bumper traffic jam. Smog pollution over busy roadway. Automobile engineers and environmental protection Agency Researchers work to find pollution free power system. View of the test steam engine. Diagram depicts the functioning of gas turbine engines for vehicles. Truck with gas turbine engine dives on road. Gas turbine engine is used in boats and heavy machinery equipment. View of Continental Trailways passenger bus on road.
Birch Canoe builder with his wife paddles a self built canoe in North of United States. He soaks a large piece of cedar for the frame. The Canoe builder cuts the cedar log into long strips. He lights a burner and places wooden strips into it. The heated strips are then bent over the lower side of a canoe form. Man removes bark from Birch tree and joins them. Wooden form is placed in the center of birch bark sheets. They bind the Canoe with root strips, sewing them on. They affix gunwales and clamp the pieces in place. They paint pitch containing charcoal onto the seams. View of the man canoeing in his hand-built canoe.
Robert Parson, designer of 4X4 Parson's Cube demonstrates its use. The Parson's Cube is made of seven parts which combines to make arrangements for eating, studying, entertaining and sleeping.
Designed and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Fuller) walks through woods and gets aboard a boat. Architectural design of his Geodesic dome. Children get out of his futuristic Dymaxion car invention. Architects reject the Dymaxion houses. Bucky Fuller gives lecture to students in Alaska about his designs and theories. Students take pictures.