Machinist lathes fiberglass base for instrument package and checks the cut with gauge. 24 February 1958.
U.S. Army soldiers loading and firing M-110 8-inch SP Howitzer. Smoke and dust arises near the target. UH-1D medical helicopter lands on the pad. Two injured soldiers are helped from the helicopter. Outdoor corridor of the 24th Evac Hospital Long Binh. (Vietnam War period).
Before the eyes of 3000 invited guests, the Opel RAK 2, Fritz von Opel's rocket car, set a speed record in 1928 at Berlin's AVUS race track. The Opel RAK 2 managed a top speed of 238 km/h with the help of 24 solid-fuel rockets packed with 120 kilograms of fuel. Fritz von Opel chose the high-speed AVUS track in Berlin because the company's racetrack was not engineered for speeds over 140 km/h. Men fix rocket boosters on the car. The car moves at a high speed. It releases large amount of smoke as it moves. Crowd watches the car. Photographers take pictures.
Professor Eugen Sänger's design for self-cooling rocket motor, March 20, 1934. Drawing of Rocket motor S.R.4, from April 14, 1934, designed with a cooling coil around the combustion chamber jacket. Drawing of Motor S.R.5, from April 24, 1934, with exits in the combustion chamber and nozzle only from cooling coils. Picture of the S.R.5 motor. Sänger's drawings for a self-demanding pumping head in single and double piston designs. Such a rocket motor, designed on May 13, 1934, to generate 100 Kg of thrust. Pictures of the S.R.5 rocket motor and test apparatus, with it firmly fastened to a steel plate to keep it from moving during the burn test. Closeup of the actual burn test in Professor Sänger's workshop, Vienna Austria.
Drawings of Professor Eugen Sänger's S.R.9 Rocket motor from July 24, 1934. Thrust force graphs for the S.R.8 and S.R.9 obtained during burn tests. The S.R.10 rocket motor designs of August 1934, one with a circular combustion chamber and another with cylindrical chamber. Experiments using a high-pressure oxygen tanks. A technician standing near a high pressure tank, and placing a tank into a larger container. Two men pouring liquid oxygen from a tank. High pressure oxygen cylinder and fueling containers standing outside Sänger's workshop in Vienna. A technician filling a container from high pressure tank.
U.S. Army 817th Army engineers build airfield within 24 hours near Salerno, Italy, in World War II. Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion are seen employing construction equipment to create a new emergency airfield near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2. A bulldozer uproots trees separating a tomato patch from a wheat field so both can be combined to create a larger space for an emergency airfield. A road grader passes a soldier seated in a piece of parked construction equipment, as it levels the ground. The operator in the parked equipment takes a drink from his canteen. Next, soldiers are seen wielding picks, and other hand tools to untangle clumps of earth and roots. Camera shows them next, working at the edge of the large cleared earthen airfield. They pause to wave to a P-38 lightning aircraft that has just landed at the new field. The P-38 passes on its landing roll, raising a cloud of dust. (Note: Moments after the end of the clip, this, first to land, P-38 had a fatal collision with a water truck, concealed in dust at the side of the runway.
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