B-52 'Stratofortress' airplane in flight. View of B-52 airplane in mid air refueling.Events during Cuban Crisis.1962.
Opening scene shows large group of retired Air Force officers seated at a number of tables in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeups of General Carl Spaatz, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, Lieutenant General James Ferguson (Deputy chief of staff for research and development at Headquarters Air Force), and Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who, in October 1963, was aircraft commander of the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Old time aviators, Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are also seen. Closeup of a model B-58 Hustler bomber sitting on a luncheon table. Closeup of a model of the Fokker C-2A "Question Mark" next to old log book. ( This clip also shows two unidentified women participating in the luncheon.)
Views from inside the B-29 "Bockscar" as it drops the "fat boy" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945. Photographed through the waist gunner's window. Bright sunny day with fair weather cumulus clouds. Static eliminators are seen on trailing edge of aircraft's wing. Mushroom cloud seen at various angles as the B-29 "Bockscar" (sometimes called "Bock's Car" or "Bocks Car") flies by. (World War II period).
Funeral services for Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Three USN F4B's airplanes flying in sky over the cemetery. Astronauts cortege arriving at gravesite. People standing behind roped off area at the cemetery. USN band playing. President's car leaving.
CH-21B takes off, flies over and lands on a helicopter pad at Pentagon. Man boards the helicopter. He shuts the door. Helicopter takes off. Trees on the helicopter pad. Cars pass on the ground. Other cars parked on the ground. Houses and trees in the background. VIP's talk at the helicopter pad. The Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles with the Secretary of Defense Charles E Wilson and other VIP walks along the side of Pentagon. Mr Dulles boards CH-21B.
CH-21B takes off from a helicopter pad at Pentagon. VIP's arrive towards the helicopter. Men walk on the helicopter pad. Trees on the ground. Bags on the ground. CH-21B's No 2 and 3 take off.
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