The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.
U.S. and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers being extracted by helicopters after Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldiers on a hill top around Route 9. U.S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in flight over the hills. One chopper approaches the hill for landing. Soldiers seated and standing await evacuation. A South Vietnamese soldiers stands with a portable rocket launcher. Soldiers around the stationary chopper. Soldiers seated in the helicopter.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. People pass on a decorated float. Spectators gather to watch them. Cameraman takes the photographs. Ladies wear different decorative dresses walking in front of the float. Horses stand on the ground. Another decorated float featuring a Liberty Bell replica and riders in colonial outfits. People and dummies present on the float. Spectators watch the event.
Buddhist priests in robes and vestments or okesa rally down the street . Renshi Shojo Ohtana dressed in an elaborate robe and flanked by children in parade. Children dressed in traditional chigo costume of kimono, hakama, and headdress. Girls in high-contrast dark and white costume with elaborate headdress, holding flowers. Boys in monotone costume and smaller headdress holding fans. Adults dressed in kimono and western clothing stand in rows behind the children.Ohtana installs the bell and blesses children in a later ceremony.17 November 1934.
Documentary titled 'Introduction to the P-39'. Trainee pilots look at a Bell P-39 Aircobra pursuit aircraft in flight. It lands on an airstrip. The pilot emerges from the cockpit. The pilot talks to new P-39 pilots about the specification and capabilities of the P-39. Guns on the nose and wings of the plane. P-39 in flight. The guns triggered and fired. (World War II period).
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