United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre attempts landing in nose high altitude. Pilot (Lt. Barty R. Brooks) applies full power to go around for another attempt. But the aircraft fails to reestablish normal flight, instead, hovering nose high and under full power (Sabre Dance) and finally strikes right wing on ground and crashes in fireball.
The exercise wind chill at Thule Air Base in Greenland. The United States Army Sikorsky H-19 helicopter on ramp. The United States Air Force Lockheed F-94 Starfire aircraft in flight. The aircraft taxis on the air base.
A film about missile launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A model of Titan III, a United States Air Force space booster. Titan III launch facilities under construction. Atlas missile on a transport being backed up a ramp to a pad. The missile being prepared for launch by 6555th Aerospace Test Wing personnel and research package is placed in a scientific passenger pod. Atlas 134F with CS-IFT nose cone. Military and civilian personnel gathered to observe the launch of the missile on 1st March, 1963. They watch at launch as the missile lifts off. A minuteman transporter arrives at the launch pad.
A film about missile launches in the United States. A Saturn rocket on a pad. The launch of the rocket. Cameramen in action. Arrival of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a United States Air Force Boeing VC-137C and tour of Cape on November 16, 1963. President Kennedy in a car with Major General Leighton I. Davis Commander Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) and James Webb, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, together with Launch Operations Center Director Kurt Debus. Astronauts Major Leroy Gordon Cooper and Major Virgil Grissom in civilian clothes brief Kennedy on the Gemini program. The President with Senator George A. Smathers and Werner Von Braun at the base of the Saturn rocket. President Kennedy boards a United States Marine Corps (USMC) VH-3A helicopter. The helicopter takes off and lands on USNS ( United States Navy Ship ) Observation Island (T-AGM-23). President Kennedy wearing a sailor jacket meets the commander of the ship. He observes the Polaris missile launch from USS Andrew Jackson submarine on 16th November, 1963. President Kennedy talks to Major General Davis and Dr. Kurt Debus at the launch operations division of the NASA. He boards a Boeing VC-137C aircraft at Cape Canvaeral and bids farewell.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations in front of the Capitol Theater at 1328 F Street in Washington DC, United States during World War 2. People in a crowd hold up whiskey bottles and newspapers. A headline on a newspaper reads ' War is over'. The crowd shows victory sign. A woman holds up a paper reading ' Truman announces -War is over'. People hold the American flag and celebrate.
Activity on a flight line control at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Air Force B-57C Canberra aircraft land and taxi. United States Air Force F-100D Super Sabre jet fighter land and taxi.
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