USS Charles P Cecil (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay during ASW (anti-submarine) exercises as part of U.S. Navy Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A helicopter hovers above water surface and dips sonar. USS Charles Cecil underway. Another SH-3A in the background. USS Charles Cecil exposes port beam. SH-3As in flight over water. SH-3A picks up port beam of USS Charles Cecil. SH-3A hovers over water. SH-3As dip sonar. Port beam view of USS Charles Cecil. S-2E in flight far off bow. SH-3As hover. S-2E flies by in the background. S-2E in flight over water. SH-3As dip sonar. S-2E flies by in the mid background. Wake and aft deck of Destroyer USS Wallace Lind (DD-703), also part of Destroyer Squadron 2. SH-3A flies over wake in the background.
View from Bridge as forward section of a U.S. Navy Battleship is being lashed by heavy seas and winds. Closeup of sailors bailing water out ot a gun emplacement on deck. Weather instruments being battered by the gale. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher blown partly off its catapult by the severe winds and weather. Complete change of scene. Aerial view of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Midway (CVB-41) in the Atlantic ocean. Closeup of technicians preparing a captured German V-2 rocket for launching from her deck, while she is moving, underway, during Operation Sandy. Closeups of Admiral William H.P. Blandy, Atlantic Fleet Commander, and Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, on deck of the Midway. A large liquid oxygen tank is brought up on an elevator from the hangar deck and the LOX fuel is piped into the V-2 rocket. View of firefighters standing nearby. View of the V-2 rocket standing upright on the Midway's deck. "Sandy"stenciled on the side of the V-2. View of the V-2 rocket being fired and launched from the Midway's flight deck. The Admirals and other officers observing the rocket launch. The rocket disappearing from view.
A failed V-2 rocket test at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. A United States V-2 rocket is being transported in a carrier to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. V-2 rocket in launch tower. The V-2 rocket launches from the launch pad. Shortly after take-off, the V-2 rocket veers off course, beginning its descent. V-2 rocket crashes and explodes, creating a thick cloud of smoke.
Film opens showing a flightline of parked Polikarpov Po-2 training biplanes. Soviet military student pilots, dressed in flying suits, with helmets and goggles, . are standing in front of them. Some student pilots being addressed by instructors. Closeup of a student and instructor standing beside a Po-2 plane. Extreme closeup of student. The student climbing into the rear cockpit of the airplane, which appears to be fully instrumented. The instructor follows and climbs into the forward cockpit. Next, a Po-2 airplane is seen on takeoff from a large dirt field. Only one pilot is aboard, in the rear cockpit. Student pilots on the ground look skyward at the airborne plane. Aerial view, from another plane of the Po-2 inflight. Another view of students on the ground watching it. Aerial view from below, as the Po-2 begins some aerobatics. It rolls over and dives down into a spin. Glimpse of part of camera plane, also a Po-2, as camera focuses on the other plane recovering from the spin. Another view of students on the ground watching the demonstration. Another brief view of the aerobatic plane entering another spin and students watching from the ground. Aerial view of the plane in normal flight. View from the camera plane of the airfield below and then of the aerobatic plane in normal flight.
U.S. Air Force Project HASP (High Altitude Sampling Project) with United States Air Force U-2 aircraft deployed at Ramey air force base in Puerto Rico, under operation Crowflight. A U-2 makes steep takeoff over camera. U-2 number 66715 lands at the air base and deploys a drag chute to help braking. Ground crewman raises flexible wing of U-2 aircraft as another places an auxiliary wheel (pogo) under the wing. After these are in place, under both wings, the U-2 aircraft taxis towards a hangar. Scenery of Ramey AFB as a U-2 aircraft flies over head.
Two S-2Es in flight in a step type formation. Pilots bank S-2Es to the left. Two S-2Es in flight. First plane banks to left, followed by second plane, showing it's under belly. Two S-2Es in a step type formation, water below. Lead S-2E in flight followed by second S-2E.
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