Two SH3A helicopters fly over the water, arrive the coast area on route to Hickam Air Force Base. One of the helicopters contains Astronaut Gordon Cooper. Sailor stands by a large wreath placed up against a stone wall containing the names of the deceased from the sinking of the USS Arizona. The colors fly from the flag pole at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Arizona Memorial and the flag.
USS Kearsarge returns to naval station at Pearl Harbor for off-loading NASA Mercury capsule Faith 7. USS Kearsarge approaches the dock in the foreground. Civilians, spectators, service personnel, all wait on the dock for arrival of USS Kearsarge. Dock workers prepare the brow, crane hook attached to the slings of brow.
Door sign 'Vice Admiral Emory S Land'. Interiors of an office. Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land seated with Postwar Planning commissioners. Emory S Land, Commodore Thomas Woodward, Captain Ed, McCurley, S Duvall Shell, AJ Williams, R Horton and Wad Skinan in discussion.
Door sign 'Post War Planning Committee'. Interiors of an office. Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land seated with the commissioners. Emory S Land, Commodore Thomas Woodward, Captain Ed, McCurley, S Duvall Shell, AJ Williams, R Horton and Wad Skinan in discussion. (World War II period)
Door sign 'Civil Aeronautics Board Room'. Civil Aeronautics Conference held in Auditorium. Mr Brown, the president of the conference. Various members attend the conference. Mr Jackson speaks.
Air Force Test pilot, Major R.L. Johnson, boards North American F-86A armaments test Sabrejet aircraft number FU-611 at Muroc Air Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). Ground crew assists the pilot with chute. Pilot puts on the helmet and oxygen mask. Aircraft taxis. Aircraft in level flight -- extends and retracts speed brakes. Plane rolls to its right and dives. Men at monitoring post on the ground. Aircraft performs several low level high speed passes.Plane lands, and Major Johnson hops out of cockpit all the way to ground where he is congratulated by another Air Force major and ground crew personnel. He puts cigarette in his mouth and feels in his flight suit for a lighter. Major Johnson set an official record of 670.981 mph by flying four times over a 1.86-mile course at altitudes below 150 feet.
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