Test on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a fishing board. Recording shows boat at harbor. Crew prepares to carry out test. Attacking projectile in boat revealed. Television transmitter and radio control receiver. B-17 planes. Plane in flight. Disguised missile as fishing boat taken into sea from docks by two men. Missile underway at sea in control of the plane. Plane in flight and crew at radio and television controls. Boat (missile) remotely controlled from plane. Images transmitted from missile shown. Freighter underway as seen from missile. Missile approaches freighter. Missile collides with freighter. Huge explosion in water raises smoke. Freighter sinks in water. Diver goes underwater to assess damage to the target. (World War II period).
Naval Air Development Center projects building. Centrifuge passes overhead. Technician in control room looks through a large window out to centrifuge. Centrifuge arm in motion around room. Centrifuge stops. Centrifuge arm stopped at control room platform. Doors open and two technicians step from centrifuge. Technicians open centrifuge door and enter. NASA astronaut Alan Shepard leaves centrifuge. Doctor peels tape from Astronaut's body after run. Technician takes air-foam cushion into centrifuge. Captain DK Slayton assisted in dressing room with flight suit. Astronaut Slayton puts on helmet. Mike hooked to helmet. Captain Deke Slayton seated in centrifuge. Captain waits for run. Centrifuge starts to whirl around room. Technicians in control room. Centrifuge turns on boom. Astronaut during G-force run. Machine slows down and astronaut relaxes. Doctor checks instruments in control room. Astronaut's heart beat on oscilloscope during run.
Astronaut training and testing: Astronaut John Glenn Junior approaches the centrifuge gondola and takes his seat. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his suit during the centrifuge run.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn Junior seated in the centrifuge gondola during its run for astronaut training and testing. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his body.
Astronaut John Glenn Junior seated in the centrifuge gondola during astronaut training and testing run. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his body.
Air Force personnel look towards the skies. Bombers in flight drop bombs at rocky areas. Smoke rises from the heavy blast. Flaming fields. Bomber flies low. Another blast raises huge clouds of smoke. Many planes drop bombs, flying low. Aircraft seen in this firepower demonstration include: B-26, B-17,F-80 and P-61 aircraft. The bombers are also seen in flying in formations.
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