Opening scenes are paintings illustrating the physical rigors surmounted by earlier Americans, from the pioneers through World Wars I and II. View of Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers parked on a flight line. Ground crew makes adjustment on advanced cruise missile fastened under a wing. Air Force air traffic controllers in a control tower. An Air Force airman playing with his child. A forklift being employed to move heavy cargo from a flatbed truck. Air Force personnel seated at duty stations with few physical demands. An Airman seated at home passively watching television with a boy (his son) in the family living room. An Air Force Captain, Flight Surgeon, discusses deleterious effects of automation, etc. on physical fitness of service personnel. View of an Air Force male subject being tested on a treadmill, while his vital signs are being constantly monitored. Results from group studies show only 5% in excellent physical condition. The Flight surgeon is seen, again, exhorting Air Force personnel to pursue physical fitness, for themselves, and their country.
Opening scene shows a U.S. Titan intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an underground silo. U.S. airmen at monitoring stations in a missile launch control room. An airman working to maintain and repair missile-related equipment and accessories. An Force Captain overseeing airmen at control room work stations. Astronaut John Glenn stepping from a NASA structure, fully suited in space suit, and climbing into a Mercury Space Capsule. Air Force personnel engaged in sports to maintain fitness, playing softball, volleyball, and basketball. An airman typing at a desk job. An Air Force woman sorting 88 column Hollerith cards punch cards by machine. An airman performing calisthenics outside his quarters on an Air Base. Another airman typing expertly at a desk job. Airmen lifting large boxes. Air Force personnel bowling for recreation. Others playing badminton at an Air Force Base. Airmen bicycling out the gate of an Air Base. Air Force bombers parked on a flight line. One, a B-52, is fitted with a large pointed missile underneath its wing.
Representative of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) shakes hands with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. during committee hearings in Washington DC. Howard Hughes arrives at Washington, DC in a executive version of Douglas B-23 Dragon aircraft (Registration Number: NC 49811). He speaks to reporters as photographers take his pictures. He gets into a 1947 Packard car, displaying District of Columbia license plates, and an image of a flying boat on its door, and leaves the airport.
Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat taxiing on two inboard engines in water moments before its maiden flight. A ship in the background and a Sikorsky R-4B Luzon helicopter ("Hoverfly") in flight in the background. The aircraft starts all eight engines, accelerates toward flying speed and her hull rises in the water as she approaches lift off on maiden flight.
A male flight crew member inside a Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor plane in the United States. He stands in the center aisle and adjusts luggage in overhead areas. View outside aircraft parked at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, as passengers board Stout Airlines Ford Tri-motor airplane NC9669 with name "Miss North Shore" (seen on nose) and "Stout Airlines - Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago" seen written on aircraft body. It is a a Ford type 5-AT-B. View of Ford Airport passenger terminal building in background. Plane taxis and takes off. The plane in flight. Interior cabin views while in flight as passengers inside the plane enjoy the view as they look out from the windows. Aerial view of aircraft in flight as seen from an adjacent flying aircraft (unseen). View of plane taking off again. Aircraft in flight over Detroit River. The Ambassador Bridge suspension bridge is seen, under construction, preparing to connect the USA and Canada between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Project Storm fury at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Crew members stand near the tail section of EC-121 plane at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station with another EC-121 plane in the background. A ladder leads up to the hatch of EC-121 aircraft. Chief Petty Officer and a civilian engineer opens silver iodide cases next to a RA-3B plane on the line with overcast sky in the background. Cartridges placed in small bomb racks. Men hand over the cartridges to someone in the bomb bay. CPO places a wooden box of silver iodide canisters. He opens the lid and removes canisters. Iodide racks placed in bomb bay. Men use speed wrench to secure the racks on bomb bay. Men off load silver iodide cases from a yellow pick up truck.
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