Brief glimpse of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Exhibition Team as they demonstrate precision close formation flying with their F9F-8 Cougar aircraft during a demonstration in 1958.
View from a tracking camera of a Navy F6F drone plane in flight. Other aircraft (unseen) flying above it at high altitude, leave twin contrails behind. Suddenly a Sparrow radar guided air-to-air missile appears from the right contrail and follows a curved path as it homes in on and then destroys the target drone. Pieces of the destroyed drone fall to the earth.
View from an aircraft in flight, of Grumman F11F-1 Tiger aircraft shooting touch and go landings on the diagonal deck of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Forrestal (CV-59), while underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Grumman C-1A Trader comes in for landing, followed by a Douglas AD-6 Skyraider displaying tail code AJ of Carrier Group 8 (CVG-8). It is followed by an AD-5Q with tail code GD of VAW-33 DET.42, Night Hawks. (This aircraft folds its wings immediately after landing.) A Douglas A3D Skywarrior lands. Crew clearing deck of aircraft. The A3D being moved to the hangar deck. Douglas delta-wing A-4 Skyhawk on the elevator. A Grumman F-11 being moved into the hangar. Regulus and Sidewinder missiles on racks below the deck. U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Gyatt (DD-712) pulls up alongside the Forrestal for refueling. Hoses being used for the purpose. Terrier missiles on the deck of the Destroyer. The Destroyer USS Charles Ware (DD-865) underway and refueling in rough seas. Her bow plunges in and out of the water and her deck is awash.
The surfaced submarine USS Barbero (SS-317) seen from the deck of the USS Forrestal, with a U.S. warship behind it. The Barbero prepares and fires a SSM-N-8A Regulus missile. Closeup of a regulus missile with launcher on deck of the Barbero. it launches with smoke streaming from its twin rocket booster engines.
The Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CV-43), is almost totally obscured by water and vapor clouds during a practice atomic radiation washdown, at sea.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, is seen from an overflying aircraft, as it plows ahead at high speed, on the surface of the sea.
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