More than hundred yachts compete in Bermuda Yacht Classic for a 635 miles race from Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda. Cannon fired to mark start of the race. 131 yachts race in fair breezes and light sea. A large number of spectators watch the sail boat race from seashore.
Support vehicles with sirens running exit Cape Canaveral airfield pre dawn. NASA scientists communicate with “Friendship 7” and the Bermuda Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry station at mission control center. Bermuda station requests a 5 minute hold on count down. Officials in Mercury-Atlas 6 control room. Mercury-Atlas 6 flight path on world map on wall. NASA scientist on his computer. Astronaut John Glenn's face in helmet before launch. People on the beach waiting for “Friendship 7” launch. A reporter talks on his headset beside the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight path. John Glenn’s face in helmet. Mercury-Atlas 6 officials talks on headset, agreeing to continue with countdown to “Friendship 7” launch. The “Friendship 7” before launch. Positional globe in capsule holds steady before launch.
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.
Cape Canaveral, Florida. At station 2, Mercury network proceeds for countdown. A man at Mercury tracking station at Bermuda gets printouts. He gives it to a woman. Men seated at tracking station center and working on machines. A man notes down readings from giant machines and gets the information from Friendship 7. Engineers and scientists work on machine and talk on headsets. Signs over world map on wall.
Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Bermuda. Aerial view of Bermuda. A sign reads 'Long Live The Queen'. The flags of Bermuda hanging on a building. Officials, dignitaries and soldiers at an airport. Two officials talk. The Queen and the Duke gets off from an aircraft. They are greeted by the officials. The Queen and the Duke review the soldiers. A close up of the Queen. Children in the streets greet her. Civilians carrying the Bermuda flags greet her. The Queen and the Duke in a horse drawn carriage and people crowd on either side of a street. People at a dock. The mast of a ship. The Bermuda flag on the ship. A sign reads 'God Save The Queen'. The Queen and the Duke along with other officials. Children wave to them. Queen Elizabeth and the Duke with officials on the deck. They wave to the civilians. The ship underway.
A film 'Safe On Base' depicts an American military base on the Bermuda Islands. A map of the Bermuda Islands on a table. The wing of a U.S. airplane. Aerial views of the Bermuda Islands. A sign: 'Headquarters, Bermuda Base Command, 1389th Air Force Base Unit, Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command'. A jeep driven on a road. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft on a ramp.