A WB-50D Weather aircraft from the USAF 59th Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) is silhouetted against a gray sky as it takes off from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. at sundown. Another one, tail number 50-4040, takes off. Both aircraft use long takeoff runs and slow rates of climb after breaking ground.
A WB-50D Weather aircraft from the USAF 59th Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) takes off from Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda.It's landing gear is still down as it approaches the camera at end of the runway, But it raises as it passes overhead. The sequence is seen again from a different camera. In both sequences, the aircraft is seen to crab to the left, compensating for a slight crosswind, as it tracks along the runway after airborne.
View of Bermuda coast at sunrise, location of Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A scientist checks telemetry data coming from a teleprinter. View of stamping of document using automatic stamper, the scientist hands the printed data to a woman assistant. The woman assistant hands the document over to the tracking and telemetry control. Telemetry communicators speaks through microphone in headphones. Telemetry scientists and engineers work on computers in Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. Telemetry scientist, wearing headphones, jots down notes. Telemetry engineer, wearing headphones with a built-in microphone, speaks, saying, “Displays and recorders have been calibrated.” The telemetry communicator inside the control acknowledges with a “Roger, thank you; flight, this is MNO” A telemetry communicator with a British accent radios his colleague.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People buy newspaper at newsstand. Election campaign activities. People listen to political candidates. Japanese politicians campaigning in Tokyo. People go to polling booth and cast their votes. Woman puts ballet paper in box. People watch tabulation board for results. Man stand on ladder at the board. The National Diet Building. Emperor Hirohito on throne. Emperor Hirohito addresses the National Diet. He reads the declaration. Speakers on rostrum. The 1947 Japanese Constitution opened. Pages are turned over. Officials enter the Japanese Supreme Court. The court in session. Police instructor lectures police and they make notes. A policeman helps two civilians at a Koban or police box in Sukiyabashi in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Traffic police on crossroad controls traffic. A policeman picks up a ball on road and returns it to baseball player. Witness comes in court and bows. Japanese politicians in meeting around table.
The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.
Sign on car reads “Nuffield Exports.” A 1947 Morris Eight Series E automobile is pushed onto a lift platform by dock workers. Car is secured and then foreman gives the signal to lift. Another car is loaded on the platform and lifted. Close up of foreman giving the lift signal. A Matador truck chassis with drivetrain dangling via crane above a ship's cargo hold area. Workers rotate truck while it is lowered.