Documentary film 'Flight to the Future' shows experimental aircraft at Muroc Army Air Field (Edwards Air Force Base) in California, United States. U.S. Air Force F-94 Starfire, B-66 Destroyer, C-123 Provider, Piasecki H-21 helicopter, C-54 Skymaster, C-47 Skytrain, T-33 Shooting Star aircraft parked at an airbase. Dry land with a few bushes around the airbase. Men raise canvas covered door of hangar. Bell YP-59 A aircraft taxis out of the hangar. Bell YP-59 A aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.
Bell Aerosystems Test Pilot Harold Graham demonstrates Rocket Belt Flight backpack (Small Rocket Lifting Device, SRLD) on grounds of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Man removes cover from the device kept on a table. Military personnel, Pentagon workers, and civilians gathered to watch the flight. Fire brigade along the flight area. Men, women and children stand behind barricaded area. Assistants strap Bell Aerosystems test pilot Harold Graham to the rocket belt flight device. He wears the rocket pack (some might call it a jet pack) on his back like a backpack and grips control handles that extend around to the front from the sides. He takes off from the ground. Two men dressed in traditional American colonial military costumes stand beside the pilot. Photographers take pictures.
A film covers the progress in development of specialized communication,command and control hardware of the NASA Gemini Agena target vehicle in Sunnyvale, California. Women assemble breadboard. Men work on forward equipment rack section of Agena space vehicle. Agena being pushed on a dolly. Tank section and forward equipment rack section being moved on dollies. An Agena equipment on rack. Agena Target Vehicle (ATV) mock up emphasizes engine and aft section. Bell technician inspect Secondary Propulsion System (SYS) module and service panel. Technician at Bell inspect multiple restart engine model 8247 in test cell.
A training film depicts proper installation of barrage balloon in the United States. Two barrage balloons in sky. A lower link of a parachute attached on a cable. The upper link of the parachute attracted to the junction assembly. A building in the background. Troops carry a box. A soldier demonstrates the installation of barrage balloon. The soldier disconnects cable terminal assembly from a bell crank by removing the pin. He unscrews the channel pin. The soldier holds the link in his hand. He attaches the male end to the cable terminal assembly. Screws the cable pin in to correct position. He locks the terminal pin. He attaches the female end to the bell crank and tighten all the screws. (World War II period).
Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.
Public Service Announcement (PSA) for Crusade for Freedom in New York. Ronald Reagan, famous Hollywood actor, talks about how Radio Free Europe has pierced the Iron Curtain (approaching people beyond reach in Communist countries). Reagan stands beside a poster advertising the campaign. Close-up view of the "World Freedom Bell" ringing atop Berlin City Hall or Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) in West Berlin, Germany. View of the 135,000-watt radio transmitter and radio tower. Personnel in radio studio working on transmitter and radio station in West Germany. Views of various men speaking into microphone in radio studio. Dramatized view of people handing over letters of gratitude to Radio Free Europe, "smuggled past the secret police" under hats identifying Communist informers by name. View of a letter being cut into multiple pieces for safe transport in secret. U.S. Army General Lucius Clay steps to podium during unveiling ceremony for the bell unveiling ceremony on October 24, 1950. Animated map shows Radio Free Europe transmission tower and locations of planned future transmitter towers to penetrate the Iron Curtain (during Cold War). Another map is shown with a transmitter location east of China "to establish Radio Free Asia to stop the spread of Communism in the far east." Ronald Reagan appeals for help to keep Radio Free Europe operating. He holds up a large envelope with the New York City mailing address to send contributions for the radio campaign: "General Clay, Crusade for Freedom, Empire State Building, New York City."
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