Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit through nose door. RATO (Rocket assisted take off) bottles on flight line at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Strategic Air Command emblem on side of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. The aircraft takes off from runway. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber rolls down the runways and deploys drag parachute.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber taxis for rocket assist, takes off at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas. Ground crew members give directions. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber in flight with smoke trails following aircraft. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber performs roll to the left and then a dive. Interior of the aircraft with Pilot on the wheel. The aircraft performs a loop, goes into a dive, pulls out and then goes into a steep climb.
Several B-29 Superfortress bombers are seen taxiing for takeoff on North Field, Guam, in World War 2. Many B-29s, with Square O tail codes of the 29th Bomb Group, are parked on the field. The aircraft taxing include two from the 19th Bomb Group, one displaying the Square M tail code and one showing only its identifcation number : 42-93967. (This B-29 is named the "City of Lansford.")
New United States B-29 Superfortress bombers on the tarmac and taxiing, landing and taking off at the Boeing Aircraft Plant Number 2, in Seattle, Washington. New B-29, tail number 46-1808 is seen. Employee stands fire guard as a B-29 starts engines. Activity on the field.
View of ground data collections at Cape Canaveral, Manchester, England, Singapore and Hawaii. Atlas D Missile on dolly. C-133B with its cargo doors open parked in the background. Atlas-Able 5A on launch pad. Aero jet General technicians work on the launch of second stage of Atlas-Able launch. Technicians manning consoles at missile block house. Atlas-Able 5A ignition and lift-off. Tracking station radar screen. Atlas-Able 5B on launch pad at prior dawn hour. Missile being launched with its lift off and climb. Atlas-Able 5B second stage explosion in air. Personnel in a meeting. Recovered missile parts.
B-25 of the U.S. Army Air Forces 321st Bombardment Group parked at Grottaglie Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. It displays nose art showing two cartoon characters and lettering reading: "Sylvester the Snarp." Two characters are shown. The smallest shoulders a bomb. Missions flown by the plane are recorded with bombs painted on its fuselage. Momentary glimpse of another B-25 parked in the distance. Scene shifts to aerial view of bends in the Volturno River near Capua, Italy. At lower right of image, smoke can be seen rising from explosions as bombs strike a bridge over the river and nearby roadways. View from overflying aircraft is obscured momentarily by cloud cover. Then network of roads is clearly seen. Scene shifts to B-25 bombers flying in formation.
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