Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, visits the United States. Shah Pahlavi salutes as he is greeted by U.S. Navy officers aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Valley Forge ( CV-45). Shah Pahlavi and Marine Captain review contingent of U.S. Marines, on board. Elevator brings them up to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Harry B. Temple, Captain of the USS Valley Forge, escorts the Shah. They talk to a pilot, standing by his aircraft for inspection. A helicopter takes off and lands again. The Shah speaks with a pilot about his flight gear. Douglas AD Skyraider Aircraft takes off and in flight. Aircraft wings fold as it taxis after landing on the carrier. The Shah and Captain Temple look at photo albums of the USS Valley Forge.
Technicians and members in the laboratories and offices of WADC, Dayton, Ohio, United States. Aerial view of approach to Wright Air Development Center (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), includuing view of Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill. Low altituide aerial view of Aero Medical Laboratory, wind tunnel area, static structural tent building and the main flight line area. Hand holding book entitled, "Wright Air Development Center" (WADC). Hands open book-on first page is: "Mission of WADC". Interior, laboratory research building at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), airmen push rack down test area and into vault. Exterior view in Cambridge Massachusetts of the MIT Great Dome and Building 10 seen from Killian Court, with text engraving seen on building frieze: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two members of the Institute walk down steps of Building 10. Two technicians working in office building. Supersonic propeller undergoing test on large test stand. Superimposed over this picture are the words: Research And Development. Supersonic propeller undergoing tests. Two technicians at control panel of the test stand. USAF B-50 Superfortress aircraft in flight. Engine starting on B-50 in flight-plane equipped with special deicing equipment. B-50 in flight showing special test and research instruments and operator.
Technicians and officers in the laboratories and offices at WADC, United States. Interior of Service Engineering Department. Superimposed over jet engine in laboratory building are the words: 'II-Service Engineering'. Officer placing section of screen over the air intakes of the jet engine. USAF F-84 Thunderjet taxis. Rocket and jet engine on test stand at Wright Field, numerous engines are on the test block. View of test instrument panel. Jet engine on test stand. One worker drops a small screw into pipe which leads into a jet engine. Workers clearing the area. Operator of the instrument panel controls the jet engine. Exhaust section of the jet engine. Jet engine explodes due to foreign object entering through the air duct. Interior of laboratory building, officer checks remains of the jet engine. USAF F-89 Scorpion stationary at Wright Field. Technician install screen in the main air intake. View of the screen.
Technicians and officers in the laboratories and offices at WADC, United States. Animation depicts the effort output of Research and Development. The graph depicts number of unsatisfactory reports and decrease in efforts. Book entitled: "Mission of WADC." Interior of drafting room, worker is sitting at desk drawing up plans. Flight of formation of five USAF Convair B-36 aircraft. Interior of Aero Medical Laboratory, centrifuge test equipment is in operation. Pilot's face during test.
F-80s and F-86s on test stand in the United States. Pamphlet on jet propelled aircraft, stamped 'Secret', held by Air Force officer. Interior of office building, Air Force officer talks to civilian contractor. Drawings of F-80 and F-86. Interior of laboratory testing of hydraulic equipment. Equipment is mounted on test stands, meter registers 3000 lbs. per square inch. Cold weather test is being conducted on hydraulic equipment in laboratory. Technician, wearing heavy protective clothing, removes section of landing gear hydraulic system from hydraulic section of landing gear in the cold weather test chamber. USAF jet fighter F-80 Shooting Star lands at Wright Field. Technician checks landing gear wheel of an F-80. Unsatisfactory report on the wheel of the F-80 is turned in. F-80 landing. Two Air Force project officers discuss aircraft performance. One officer pointing to the wheel location, end of wing and fuselage of the F-80. Testing of wheel for the USAF F-86 Sabre in test stand. Interior of laboratory building showing wheel test instrument panel. Views of test and recording charts in operation. Stationary F-86. F-86 in initial flight, wheels down. F-86 landing at Muroc AFB.
Director of Peace Corps Robert Sargent Shriver in Washington DC. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. is interviewed. He is questioned about pictures and sovereigns as he prepares to leave his office. Pictures and sovereigns in the office. Sargent Shriver removes a Mexican sombrero and a whip from a wall and tells the interviewer how he obtained it. He shows a wooden stick which was used and presented by the chief of a tribe of West Africa. An ebony cane received from northern Nigeria. He shows the Magsaysay Foundation Award for the work done by United States Peace Corps in Asia. He shows the White House pen which was used by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Peace Corps Act on September 27, 1961 with the President's autograph. Sargent shows a framed letter by the parents of the first Peace Corps volunteer to die abroad. He reads out the letter.
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