Training of U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets at Randolph Field, Texas. A Link trainer instructor speaking by microphone to a cadet in a Link Trainer. A tracking (recording) device in front of the instructor. The instructor walks to the Link trainer and speaks to the cadet, who is seated in it. Flight instruments are visible inside. View from the outside as the cadet inside the closed Link trainer makes spin around a couple of times and back again. He opens the cover looking confused and removes his headset. Several other cadets watching are amused at the performance.
A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.
Operations of the Hurricane Hunters in the United States. Extremely high altitude view looking down on a hurricane On the ground, trees blown up by winds and a town submerged in water. Meterologists and technicians working in the National Hurricane Advisory Center in Miami, Florida. Flight Operations building at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Air Force personnel reading weather messages. View from below of U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) Weather Service WC-130E/H aircraft taking off. A notice about the hurricane being printed out. The WC-130E/H aircraft in flight during a regular mission for checking wind speed and direction. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft, which is encountering considerable turbulence. A dropsonde being ejected out from the aircraft. A man working on an instrument. A MAC Weather Service WC-130E/H aircraft taking off.
Damage due to a hurricane in Connecticut, United States. Cars parked on a street. Buildings in the background. Fallen trees in the area. A rubbled building. A flooded area. Firemen dousing a fire in a building. Aerial view of a rubbled area. Wrecked ships at a coast. Men working nearby.
A documentary detailing the effects of atomic weapons on Boeing B-50 bomber Superfortress airplanes, via Project 5.2 for the measurement of the effects of atomic weapons. Animated drawings of aircraft identified as WADC B-50 D, SAC B-50D, Navy AD-2, and T-33. and flying over a map, including aircraft shockwaves nearby. A B-50 bomber Superfortress aircraft codenamed “Clay Pigeon No.3” in flight formation on target run. B-50 bomber code named “Clay Pigeon No. 2” flies over a mountainous terrain. A Douglas AD-2 of the United States Navy code named “Duckbill” in flight formation on target run. Seven Lockheed TAC T-33 Shooting Star (with code name Leap Frog) approaching target after a bomb’s release. A target circle in ground as seen above. Aerial view shows the detonation of an atomic bomb, showing the expansion of super-heated circle cloud. Aerial view of cloud formation from atomic bomb detonation. A B-50 Superfortress in flight experiences sudden violent vibration from detonation nearby. A view of a mushroom cloud formation. A Douglas AD-2 flies near a mushroom cloud.
A United States Army Air Corps Squadron bombs a lava flow from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Keystone bombers in flight over Hawaii. Aerial view of an erupted volcano showing the lava flow. A column of smoke and dust forms after bomb explosions near Hilo.
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