United States Navy battle ship underway. Aircraft zooms low alongside battleship. Planes fly over the battleship fleet. Sailors aboard a battleship. Smoke screen laid by the aircraft. Ground crew at the flight deck of the ship. United States Aircraft catapulted from the battleship.
Research and field tests during Project SOIAS (Sliding On Ice and Snow). Navies plane in snow. Engineer picks up different type of skis and turns them over. Meter in the cockpit. Men push the plane in circle showing all three skis. Plane taxis. C-125 equipped with skis. Equipment used for forecasting weather. Meter records snow conditions. Navies test vehicles make comparison of records made from test flights. Plane takes off. Another Navies test vehicle. Ski shows chemical liquid coming out of holes. Tests on drag recorded. Freeze tests on wheels. Attempts to start aircraft. Mechanics work on aircraft. Interior of the cockpit. C-125 takes off.
Research and field tests during Project SOIAS (Sliding On Ice and Snow). C-125 in flight over terrain, small lakes, Lake of the Woods in Kenora, Canada. Ski equipped C-125 lands. Ski equipped Navion plane lands and taxis. C-125 taxis over Kenora Air base. DeHavilland Beaver taxis. Canadian Fox Moth aircraft taxis. Stationary Canadian Norsemen. Ski attached to aircraft. Shock absorber attached to the ski. C-125 stationary. Two Navion planes face each other. Mechanics work on Navion plane. Mechanics work on landing gear of Ski equipped C-125. Oscillograph instrumentation system used to record load records. Aircraft engineer work on equipment.
Research and field tests during Project SOIAS (Sliding On Ice and Snow). Landing gear of C-125 equipped with skis. C-125 taxis. Interior of the cockpit. C-125 and C-125 B land. Navion Plane lands. Meal prepared on the frozen lake. Mechanics work on aircraft and refuel it. C-125 and Navion plane taxi in the background. Navion aircraft flies-by.
Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes in flight. PBM Mariner aircraft flied low near the water surface. Several vessels underway. Mountains in the background.
Air-Sea rescue by PBM Mariner aircraft. PBM planes land among ships lying off island. Smoke rises from an explosion on the beach. Men paddle in life raft. Line is thrown to him from PBM. Life raft pulled to PBM tail. Aviator in rubber life raft towed alongside PBM. The aviator climbs into plane head first. Empty life boat drifts freely. PBM taxis for take off. Tail of an aircraft. PMB towed to the stern of a vessel. Men watch aboard. Aviator floats in a rubber life raft. Rescued aviators and enlisted men in aircraft rearm boat. Officer interviews enlisted survivor and takes notes. Rearming boat gets underway and leaves.
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