U.s. Coast Guard crew members run from their hangar to their HH-52 Search and Rescue helicopter, parked on a pier. They don personal equipment and board the helicopter which then takes off. View from the cockpit as the chopper heads toward orange smoke from a flare in the waters close to shore. It lands, close to a man, in the water. View from inside the HH-52 as the rescue crew performs a platform pickup. A crew member deploys a steel grate platform and assists the man onto the platform, from the water.The crew member then folds the platform into the helicopter, which takes off and flies away.
Rescue operations being practiced by United States Cost Guard HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. Pilot in cockpit of a USCG HH-52 Seaguard. Red distress flare being used to signal by man in sea. Helicopter lowers a basket into which the man climbs. The helicopter hoists the basket and brings the man on board. The helicopter flies above water. A 40 foot Coast Guard Utility boat is seen in the water.
Search and rescue training operations being conducted by United States Coast Guard (USCG) HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. A Coast Guard 40-foot utility boat underway in water close to shore, accompanied by a USCG HH-52 Seaguard flying close above the boat. Riprap stones line shore in foreground. The helicopter turns and circles away, returning to fly low over the 40-foot utility boat. It then pulls up in a climb. It circles and returns, slowly tracking over the boat, and lowers a man on a hoist to the boat. Next scene shows the utility boat underway at high speed with the helicopter above until it pulls away and circles down close to the camera. Its side door is open and Coastguardsmen can be seen inside.
Rescue operations being conducted by United States Cost Guard HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. A USCG HH-52 Seaguard flies low above a sea shore. Pilot in cockpit of the helicopter. The helicopter lands on an airstrip. Other USGC HH-52 helicopters in the background.
Rocket engine nozzle at launching. The engine rises slowly from launch pad. An engineer behind control panel. A rocket launches a captured German V-2 rocket/WAC Corporal Bumper 8 from Pad 3 of Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Two United States Air Force Convair F-106As Delta Dart in flight. Aerial view of launch complexes. Titan II missile is launched. The Titan II missile explodes mid-air. A huge ball of fire from Titan II explosion. A scientist uses a tracking camera during a Titan II rocket launch. Footage from camera shows the first stage separation of the Titan II. The booster blasted away at second stage ignition. Various tracking stations covering the Atlantic missile range. A satellite dish recording telemetry data. Observatory dome with telescope rotating. The USS HH Arnold (T-AGM-9) missile tracking ship at sea. A re-entry vehicle is seen re-entering the atmosphere. A United States Air Force Lockheed JC-130B Hercules equipped with a trapeze structure snatching an Aero kite balloon suspended from a ship. Air Force Missile Test Center and its logo. View of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida (840 Falcon Ave. Building 720 Patrick AFB, FL 32925). Various missiles on display in front of the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab at Patrick Air Force Base. Engineers working in the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab. An engineer examines a magnetic tape from an IBM console in the EDP room. An Air Force Missile Test Center report. A Gemini space capsule is being lowered. NASA personnel watch the capsule. Sign reads “Gemini / Titan II Man Rated Complex Martin Company”. Lt. Colonel John G. Albert Chief of the Gemini Launch division, 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at the entering gate. A blockhouse in the background. Colonel Albert inspects Gemini’s boosters. He is at the launch control in the blockhouse.
A film about missile launches in the United States. U.S. Army 2nd Missile Battalion of 44th Artillery conducts a test under simulated operational conditions. A mobile launcher and support equipment mounted on a half truck moves over a scrub land at Cape Canaveral. A Pershing missile being erected at a firing site. Personnel go through a countdown and check out the missile launch. Tracking of the Pershing missile. The missile being launched.