A scientist makes presentation of the Project MX770.Technicians work at launch station. RTV-A-5 missile is taken and kept in a supersonic wind tunnel for some tests.Another technician takes XSSAM-4 missile from its pack and assembles it prior to its placement in supersonic wind tunnel. A machine shows movement of needle from 0 to 8.
International Boy Scouts at a jamboree in Colorado, United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower makes a 130 mile trip from Denver as he visits the international Boy Scout jamboree. He meets the Boy Scouts. Nearly 56 thousand Boy Scouts from various countries cheer the President as he moves past them in an open car.
In final year of passenger operations, a Denver and Rio Grande narrow guage railroad train is seen traveling through Black Canyon in Gunnison National Park, Colorado. Interiors of the train filled with passengers in a holiday mood. Interior of passenger cars is old fashioned. View of ceiling lamps in the car. The train travels along the river and through mountainous terrain. Water springs from a hole in a mountain, creating a waterfall, seen from roof of the train. A river spills over a mountain in a large waterfall. The train crosses a bridge over the river and enters Black Canyon, where it follows the river bed between towering peaks on both sides. The engine of the train belches heavy black smoke as it struggles up a grade crossing a bridge. it continues to follow close to the river. Several fishermen turn to wave at the passengers. Gradually the mountains open wider as the train proceeds on its way.
U.S. Air Force officers with civilians at Martin Plant, Denver. Three Air Force officers shake hands and talk with two civilians at Dyna-Soar mock up DEI (Development Engineering Inspection) at Martin Plant, Denver.
1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
Views of a scattered wreckage of a B-18 aircraft in a plowed field in Delavan, Illinois. Civilians inspecting the parts of the wreckage including unopened parachutes, a set of broken golf clubs, a music book and a shoe. This was B-18 serial no. 36-265, that crashed June 10,1938. It was assigned to ACTS, Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado.
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