U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in hangar building, technicians around it. Technicians load equipment in Q-bay of U-2. Airmen in cockpit and check U-2 equipment. Equipment dolly pulled away from U-2 in hangar building at Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio in Texas, United States.
U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Midway (CVB-41). Activity on flight deck which is crowded with North American AJ (A-2) Savage twin engine prop aircraft. Also seen are an F9F Panther and an F2H-3B jet. An F2H jet is set on a catapult. (It has number 57 painted on nose and XC on its tail.) Flight Deck Crew members surround the aircraft. Under deck crew direction, the nose of aircraft is raised to an elevated attitude. Deck crew clears away from the aircraft, launch officer signals, and the F2H-3B aircraft catapults from the ship's deck.
A review of remote controlled weapons of the United States Army Air Force such as the Power Driven Bomb. A U.S. Army Air Force base, airmen drag out a test power bomb, an AT-21 aircraft and a target plane PQ-2. The control system instruments of the power bomb in its cockpit are shown, indication meters and controllers. Planes take off simultaneously on a runway, PQ-2 gliding in sky. AA outfit in the desert. Anti-aircraft guns fires on plane. Projectiles burst near the PQ-2 airplane. Both aircraft land on a runway. Flak holes in PQ-2 fuselage. (World War II period).
United States Naval patrol bomber SP-2H in Vietnam. A tractor pushes it backwards as a C-124 taxis along the runway behind another SP-2H A man holds on to a tow bar as a tractor approaches to hook on to a SP-2H early in the morning. SP-2H parked on line as UH-1E helicopter flies away. A light stand is brought as flood lights show on the starboard jet engine area. Three men work on jet engine at night.
Montage of scenes from U.S. Navy exercises involving aircraft carrier and T4M-1 aircraft of Navy Squadron VT-2B. Crew on deck of Carrier fasten a torpedo under the fuselage of T4M-1 number 2-1-7. . The aircraft has logo, of dragon astride a bomb, painted on its side. The aircraft takes off from the carrier flight deck. Views of Navy cameraman and one from universal News hand cranking their movie cameras. View from aircraft, of explosion and smoke below and behind.Views from rear cockpit of aircraft in flight. View of Navy photographer in rear cockpit. View from rear seat of aircraft diving down towards warship underway. Views of the T4M-1 aircraft number 2-1-2 flying low over the water and releasing its torpedo. The torpedo leaving a wake as it heads toward the target ship (a single-stack freighter).Torpedo strikes target ship amidship with huge explosion.
A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Preparations for firing shows a couple of workers standing on a platform near the base of the V-2 missile. They make the final preparations. A view from inside a control block house shows V-2 in the firing position. Workmen on ladders work on the warhead section of the V-2.
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