Accidents and incidents at the Air Force flight test center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The United States Air Force YB-52 lands and deploys a drag chute normally. In distance another YB-52 lands in dirt off a runway and turns on the ground as the rear landing gear collapses. A B-52C Stratofortress landing. View inside the cockpit as the landing gear lever jumps out of position and the copilot holds it down. The B-52C aircraft lands with the rear gear collapsed. Another view of the same event from outside.
The U.S. army launches its operation in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The U.S. soldiers march past the UH-1B Iroquois helicopters at the Bien Hoa Air Base. The soldiers stand as they hold guns. The UH-1Bs Iroquois on field. The U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team soldiers board the UH-1B Iroquois.
United States Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft and crew in the Mariana Islands during World War II. A B-29 Superfortress in flight. The engines of the aircraft start. The bomb bay doors of the aircraft are opened. The aircraft banks and turns. View of cumulus clouds.
The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)
View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
The U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division returns to A Shau Valley in Vietnam during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord during Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois helicopter comes in and lands on a mountaintop at Fire Support Base Ripcord. American troops unload supplies from the UH-1B Iroquois helicopter and the helicopter takes off. The soldiers carry equipment and supply to Fire Support Base. The supplies on the ground. The troops move at the Fire Support Base. A troop carries a hose of an equipment. Troops carrying equipment. The helicopter brings troops to landing zone fury.
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