Animated illustration of rapid improvements in GE jet engine designs. Views of the GE plant at Lockland, Ohio. Interior of a jet passenger liner airplane, as envisioned in 1951. View of flight attendant or stewardess in uniform, delivering tray of food to a passenger in the cabin of an aircraft in flight. View of Dr. Sanford A. Moss, standing in front of the Collier Trophy, looking at his award certificate, in 1941. The trophy was awarded to him and the U.S. Army Air Corps for development of the aircraft engine supercharger. Discussion of Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Air Force, General Electric and Convair ideas about building an atomic powered airplane. Views of the GE gas turbine laboratory. Montage of jet aircraft of the early 1950s. Among those seen are: Convair SF-92 delta wing fighter plane; The Chase XCG-20A 4-engine cargo plane; North American F-86 sabrejet; Grumman F9F panther; F-89 Scorpion; and B-36 bomber, plus several unidentified experimental aircraft. Several scenes of B-47s in rocket assisted takeoffs.
Corntones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. Lieutenant Bill Glaza reads from a paper and introduces the Corn Tones. The Corntones play music and sing a song. Bill Glaza speaks into a microphone and the band leader Lieutenant Dickinson introduces his group.
Corn Tones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. The Corn Tones play music and sing a song. Members of the Corn Tones who are the Signal Corps Officers introduce themselves. They play their own song called 'Heartbreak Ridge'. The song is about a wounded man who is spotted by the medics on the Heartbreak Ridge, brought in and given a transfusion that saves his life. Lieutenant Bill Glaza signs off stating that this show commemorates National Blood Donor Campaign. He makes a final appeal for blood donation.
Corn Tones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. The Corn Tones play music and sing a song. Members of the Corn Tones who are the Signal Corps play their own song called 'Heartbreak Ridge'. The song is about a wounded man who is spotted by the medics on Heartbreak Ridge, brought in and given a transfusion that saves his life. Lieutenant Bill Glaza signs off stating that this show commemorates National Blood Donor Campaign. He makes a final appeal for blood donation.
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A section of a rocket with various compartments and recording instruments placed horizontally on the ground. A monkey secured inside the rocket compartment. Another monkey placed in the other compartment. Recording instruments fastened to the monkeys. A group of personnel inspects the tip of the rocket. A man holds a parachute. A monkey placed in the rocket chamber.
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Interiors of a laboratory shows technicians looking through microscopes. An airman operates a balance scale. Bottles on a shelf in the background. A technician places a cylinder in a horizontal position.