The eve of launching Destroyer Escort, USS Currier (DE-700), at Bay City in Michigan, USA. View of the Defoe Shipbuilding shipyard. A ship upside down showing rolls. Men knock out support beams of USS Currier. Men work on ship. Men work on propellers of ship. Rope is cut. USS Currier slides down ways. Mrs Betty Baker Currier christens ship. Views of another ship hull upside down, under construction. Spectators watch the ship as it is moved upright by a giant crane and hook assembly. Spectators watch ship righted. Men work on this next ship in queue.
View of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. A shift of miners transported to underground stope via man-cars. Miners board the man car. The car descends down the mine. Travel shots of the haulage tracks running inside the drift. Timber blocks support the ceiling of the drift.
Copper rocks sorted from waste at a stope of a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Miners fill ore car with waste rock from a chute. Waste rock is dumped into the stope for filling the stope. Miner draws sorted ore from a chute into an ore car.
Mine workers load copper ore onto skips from ore car at a copper mine in Northern Michigan, USA. Ore is lifted from mine to the upper levels. View of large hoisting machine at work. Miners arrive at the shaft station on a man car. Miners disembark the man-car.
View of a Football game played between Michigan and Michigan State teams. In the first quarter Michigan takes the lead with a score of 7-0. Crowd of more than 100,000 cheering. Combination of Steve Juday and Sherman Lewis level scores and game winds up in a tie, with a score 7-7.
The first Douglas F5D-1 Skylancer aircraft (BuNo 139208) at Edwards AFB for its maiden flight on April 21, 1956, with test Douglas Aircraft test pilot Robert O. Rahn at the controls. Test pilot Rahn climbs aboard the aircraft, which is painted in U.S. Navy colors. After several views of pilot, Bob Rahn, in the cockpit, the scene shifts to the airplane on takeoff roll. It takes off smoothly accompanied by a T-33 chase plane. The F5D climbs out steeply and is next seen in level flight cruise configuration. The sequence concludes with the F5D on final approach and landing, with T-33 flying in parallel. The aircraft touches down smoothly and rolls out in a nose high attitude, seeming to almost drag its tail, but not quite. Photographers record the landing from the side of the runway. Reportedly the test flight was smooth overall and the aircraft easily exceeded the speed of sound on this, its first flight. (Note: The U.S. Navy cancelled the F5D Skylancer order, after only several aircraft were built. Two were eventually acquired by NASA.)
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