History of the SR-71 development from conferences, through assembly, to operational flights of the aircraft, United States. SR-71 taxis and takes off. Other airplane parked on the runway. Exterior of the Pentagon. Men enter advanced system program office to discuss about the SR-71. Colonel R E Sprinkel presides over contractor's conference. The project is the Lockheed Defense Development Project. Lockheed employees enter 'Skunk Works'. SR-71 in flight. Designers and airframe specialists at work. Crated SR-71 on tractor-trailer leaves Lockheed Plant, en-route and arrives at Edwards Air Force Base. Officers and Lockheed officials look at SR-71.
Several glowing neon advertisement signs of leading companies at night time on the streets of Mexico City. Some of the signs seen include 'Wells Fargo & Co. Express' , 'Pan American Airways', 'Vogue', 'Philips Radio', 'Bette Davis en Jezabel', 'Westinghouse Casa Edison', 'Remington Rand', 'Agencia Philco', 'Sunshine Special Missouri Pacific Lines', 'La Opera Hennessey', 'Ladies' Entrance Bar', 'Old Schenley', 'Sparton', 'Articulos Electrico Universal', 'Ford', 'Frigidaire General Motors', and 'Entrada Gratis Concurso Nestle'
Interiors of a busy railway station in Germany. Printing machines issue tickets to passengers. Various shops at the station. Trains of different routes. Rhine express en route to its destination. Passengers inside the train.
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Lockheed L-1049E-55 Super Constellation plane (registration: YV-C-AMS) en route to Caracas, Venezuela crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, south of New York. Search and rescue boats and planes arrive at the crash site. Belongings of the victims taken out of the water.
Opening scene shows American soldiers gathered around a C-47 transport plane on a desert field in Oran, Algeria during World War 2. They walk away en masse from the plane. Another C-47 is seen with tail number tail number 42-23507 (Records show this aircraft was delivered to Oran on May 20, 1943 and supported Operation Torch- The Italian Campaign of World War 2.) Scene shifts to interior of a C-47 rigged as an air evacuation aircraft, with wounded American soldiers in stacked bunks on both sides of the aircraft. A nurse and corpsmen are attending to the wounded. Two soldiers carry one of the wounded soldiers on a litter to the aircraft door. View from the outside of the soldier being carried by others to a waiting field ambulance. More views of the wounded being transferred from the plane to waiting ambulances. Scene shifts to ambulances parked on the desert field with a large Red Cross flag above them. A Curtiss P-40 fighter plane taxis past the camera. A large open field tent with a large Red Cross flag flying above it. Nurses and medical corpsmen tend to wounded soldiers lying in ambulances. A nurse serves water to some wounded.
Aftermath of fire on USS Forrestal (CV-59) in Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. Debris of the charred F-4B Phantoms lies on the deck. Crew members inspect damage and clean up. Man in flight deck crane clears the debris of damaged F-4B. A man with broom cleans the deck surface while several other men walk in background. Crew on the ship's island look towards the damage and the debris of charred aircraft scattered all over the flight deck area. A slightly damaged SH-3A helicopter. Other intact aircraft near fore starboard including A-4C and A-6A. Crew members relaxing following the incident. Crew sunning themselves on the flight deck and in nets. One has a guitar. Others in quiet contemplation. Ship en route to Subic Bay.
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