Activities in Bermuda of USAF Air Transport Command, Atlantic Division units. An air-sea rescue boat is secured under the fuselage of a USAF SB-17G Flying Fortress aircraft, of the 7th Air Rescue Squadron, at Kindley Field. "ASR 578" is painted on the B-17 fuselage. Air-sea rescue equipment displayed on a ramp, including rations, Gibson girl hand-cranked emergency radio, signal flares and smoke, etc. Very pistols and emergency rockets are also shown. Several kits of such emergency equipment with parachutes, ready for air drop. Scene changes to routine USAFoperations at the base. A USAF technical Sergeant enters information about a C-54 aircraft on the Kindley Field blackboard log of transient aircraft. Several other entries already appear on the blackboard. An Air Force Captain marks up a flight control tag for a transient aircraft..
A tractor tug eases a U.S. Navy PBM-3 Mariner flying boat down a ramp into water at the U.S. Navy Operating Base, Bermuda. View as the PBM heads toward the camera on a rocket assisted takeoff (RATO). As the rockets ignite, the PBM accelerates and takes off at a high angle of attack leaving a trail of white smoke behind. The rockets burn out and the aircraft levels at about two thousand feet, continuing on its way.
A fisherman catches a shark without a hook in Bermuda. He holds a fish by its tail and tilts a bucket to pour out water. The fisherman in waist deep water catches a shark without a hook.
Two aircraft collide in air in Bermuda. U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight. The propeller of the aircraft rotating. Two aircraft collide in air. The aircraft descends towards the sea. The aircraft falls in the sea. Smoke rises from the aircraft. Smoke in sky. Another aircraft flies above the sea.
Film opens with camera panning across Kindley Field, Bermuda, where WB-50 and WB-29 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) are parked. Cluster of buildings and checkered tanks are seen behind them. Scene shifts to crew of a WB-29, in flight gear, including back pack parachutes, posing in front of their aircraft. The Aircraft Commander checks their chutes and they board the aircraft.
Weather airplanes in Bermuda. Kindley Air Force Base. United States Air Force officers looking at a weather map. Pilots briefing crew. United States Air Force WB-50D Superfortress aircraft taking off. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft. They locate the eye of a hurricane. Flight crew works at weather recording and communication equipment inside the aircraft. A USAF officer recording wind velocity readings on a weather map. The WB-50D in flight.
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