Global climate study conducted by the NASA Langley Research Center in Virgina, United States scientists on the Bermuda Island. Aerial view of the Bermuda Island.Charles Whitlock and his colleague from NASA Langley research Center in Virgina on the Island. They walk towards the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Tracking station. They are conducting the first global surface radiation budget experiment. Animation depicts a satellite revolving to give information about the climate. The Clouds over a dome of the building. Whitlock speaks about the satellite soundings that helps them to give information. The dome opens. A scientist seated inside a Laser control room. Beam comes out from a roof. The colleague takes out important measurements. Whitman talks about the important data that can be collected through the satellite. The colleague cleans a camera on a platform. A monitor showing images. The colleague notes down the information. An instrument on a roof. Sunlight on water. Whitlock prepares a balloon. He attaches an instrument on the balloon. The balloon is launched. The balloon flies away. Whitlock talks about the way balloon will help them. A view of the observatory at sunrise. Sunlight on water.
Engineering students prepare a mock up of the National Aerospace Plane in Virginia, United States Animation depicts the National Aerospace Plane (X-30 aircraft) ability to fly anywhere in the world. A group of college engineering students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, are seen building a half scale mock up of the Aerospace Plane. Faculty advisor Walter F. O'Brien helps a student. A student makes the parts of the plane. A student makes a computer design of the plane. The students making parts of the plane. Walt O'Brien at a desk talks about the design and different aspects of the aircraft model. The students working on the half-scale model. The students work inside a hangar. A half skeleton of the plane. The student assemble the aluminum structure. The airplane is rolled out of the hangar on graduation day. People applaud and take pictures. The students receive awards and recognition for their effort. A truck carrying mock up drives on a highway road. The mock up is loaded into a USAF (United States Air Force) C-5 Galaxy. Side of the the C-5 aircraft as it takes off. The mock up arrives in Paris and is seen on display at the Paris Air Show. Visitors at the show look at the plane. A close up of the mock up. Animation depicts the National Aero-Space Plane in flight.
NASA's research on the effect of dangerous weather conditions at Langley Research center in Virginia, United States. The time laps photos. Commercial passenger airplane taking off from an airport runway. The aircraft in flight. A man at pilot controls of a flight simulator at Langley, in a joint effort between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA. A computer model of wind shear. The pilots in a cockpit of a commercial airplane in flight. Hinton talks about the incident which took place in the past summer and helped the pilots to survive because of the training that they got. A heavy rain simulator at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Langley Research center. A tabular steel carriage. A heavy rain test conducted at the center. Slow motion test conducted. Aerospace technologist Goudy Bezos talks bout the tests conducted. The rain simulator.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) units carry out relief projects in flooded areas in the United States in the Great Depression. The floods in a town. The water entering the town. The fields flooded with water. Damage due to floods. Aerial view of the flooded area. Houses submerged in water. The water on streets. Several views of damaged buildings and submerged houses in water. The workers of the WPA help the people to rescue. They take the people stucked in their houses aboard a boat. Several views of the workers helping the people to rescue. The WPA workers on the snow area. The victims are provided woolen clothes by the workers. Red Cross nurses in a hospital. They treat the wounded. The workers carry wooden planks on their shoulder. The WPA workers fill sand bags. The workers lay sand bags near a river. Director of WPA Harry Hopkins inspects flooded areas. The workers remove the wreckage. The wreckage on the ground. The workers remove the wreckage.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) units carry out relief projects in dust bowl sections in the United States, during the Great Depression. A drought and dried area thick with dust. The hot dry winds blow. A dust storm occurs. Two people - a woman and a boy, are seen walking with difficulty in the dust storm. Food and medical supplies are delivered to dust storm victims. The women fill water from a hand pump. Nurses treat the children and examine them for respiratory problems and other ailments. The children seated on a bench. A nurse writes into a paper. A close up of a boy with a thermometer in his mouth. A nurse checks eyes of a boy. Horse drawn equipment and teams of farmers with horses . The farmers employed by the WPA work. The farmers are hired by the WPA to construct a new road, with much of the digging and leveling done with horse drawn power. The farmers on horse drawn carrier move on a road. They are at work during the project. Relief workers and men who suffered from drought construct dams to help stop land erosion. The workers building the dam substructure and hauling rocks during the construction.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers help in stopping fire in a forest in the United States during the Great Depression. Wildfire raging in a forest. Smoke and flames seen among trees. The WPA workers get in trucks. They drive towards the area where fire took place. They get emerge from trucks and fight the fire with limited equipment and limited protective clothing. Men cut the trees. The trees burning. The men place sand with shovels. They spray water with a hose. Black smoke in sky. Men dig holes in the region.
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