Photograpy from an airborne chase plane, on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 rocket plane. A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane seen flying in the contrails of the NASA B-52 mothership (NB-52A,52-003) flown by pilots Bock and Allovie, An F-100D fighter flies slightly ahead of the B-52. The X-15, 56-6671, with Scott Crossfield, in the cockpit, is cradled under the B-52's right wing. View from the photo chase plane, as it pulls closer to the B-52. The X-15 and leading F-100 chase plane are clearly visible. The camera plane has dropped back and the X-15 releases, from the B-52 mothership, as its rocket engines simultaneously ignite. It drops and accelerates below and in front of the B-52. It stays below momentarily, without leaving a contrail. Then it accelerates and climbs rapidly out of sight. Sunlight glares as two chase planes are seen.
Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in a hangar and test of an engine in Cape Canaveral Florida, in advance of NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 mission. Technicians work on the missile in a hangar. They assemble the outer body parts of the missile. A technician stands on the missile and the other technician helps him to put on the outer cover of the missile. They run tests and check out the vernier engine at Cape Canaveral. They work on the engine. A technician with a paper in his hand. Various tools on the table. The vernier engine on a test machine. A man at a control panel.
Launch of NASA Mercury Atlas-9 in Cape Canaveral, United States with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard. The rocket on a launchpad. A gantry in the background. Smoke comes out from the engine of the rocket and it lifts off, climbs, and creates condensation trail in the sky. The Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in flight.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the Kontum airfield. A burning aircraft on the ground. South Vietnamese ammunition trucks caught in NVA (North Vietnamese Army) ambush. Smoking and exploding ordinance. Vietnamese defensive positions in Kontum City and in the surrounding terrain. A U.S. Colonel talking on the radio during an inspection flight in a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois or 'Huey' helicopter. Billowing smoke on Highway QL 14. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter landing at a helipad in the area. MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum. The team loads supplies into the helicopter. South Vietnamese refugees waiting to board helicopter for evacuation. A Vietnamese soldier talks to the refugees.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying a sling load of rice. Vietnamese refugees sitting in a compound as they await evacuation. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. Refugee women and children in traditional Vietnamese hats sitting in the compound. Refugees board a CH-47. The helicopter takes off.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Vietnamese refugees board a U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The helicopter takes off. The chopper in flight at sunset. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers inside a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter during a FAC mission over Kontum. A soldier on the radio in the chopper. A battery on the helicopter floor. The pilot at controls in the cockpit. Aerial view of craters and terrain damage from a bomb strike. Smoke due to fire from explosions.
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