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.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States Ambassador Winant in London, United Kingdom. They sign the Epochal treaty leasing Air and Naval bases to the United States in return for the fifty Destroyers. Men stand and watch the dignitaries signing the treaty.
United States 501st Parachute Battalion in Fort Benning, Georgia. Airplanes on the air base. Paratroopers march. They board the planes. The airplanes in formation. Paratroopers jump from the planes in flight. They open their parachutes. They land.
Indian man playing a type of saranqi in a temple, as another man sits at his side. With his feet, the player also controls a pair of sticks at the base of the instrument that beat a rhythm. He sings as he plays.
Aquatennial boat parade marks the opening of water sports in Minneapolis. Floats based on various themes on parade in the streets of Minneapolis. Young women on floats wave at crowd. Floats about the Northern Railways and U.S. Defense are followed by a giant fish shaped float that rolls by, followed by a float made to look like a paddle wheel steam ship called "Showboat". Thousands of spectators gather and celebrate.
Distant view of President John F. Kennedy's convoy of cars and buses traveling along the Vandenberg Air Force Base roads in California, United States. Lush green mountains in the backdrop. The convoy enters a missile launch facility. Guards at gate salute as the convoy enters. President Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara inspect a minuteman missile transporter. Air Force officials converse with them as they inspect. Presidential convoy departs from the facility. A saluting guard poses for the camera. A guard wearing spectacles and driver in a minuteman missile transporter. Shows a minuteman missile transporter at the facility. The erector reads U.S. Air Force.
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