British car manufacturer, Rover Company, demonstrates the world's first gas turbine car, JET 1, by driving it 140 miles per hour on the Jabekke highway in Belgium, under the auspices of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. Officials of that organization occupy a monitoring van. View from overhead of gas turbine car speeding towards camera. Driver is interviewed, while sitting in the car. View of helmeted driver running the turbine car at a higher speed, of 153 miles per hour, a world's record for a gas turbine car. View from above of the car speeding away from the camera.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. U.S. aircraft B-29 in flight. Parachute attachment and A-3 lifeboat dropped from the plane. Coastline in the background. Two parachutists jump in water from C-47 aircraft. Trees and houses on coast. Men aboard a lifeboat. Men swim out to men who are in rubber life raft. SA-16 approaches for landing. It lands on water and taxis. Pier in view. Men in rubber raft. Cadets walk towards trees on coast. Military dependants bathe on beach. Rubber life raft loads in water. Flare smoke arising from boat. Motor launch underway at sea. Two parachutists descend.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. Officer delivers speech to a group in hangar. Pictures and charts mounted at the back of instructor. Cadet looks into cockpit of a jet aircraft in hangar. Group attends lecture inside hangar. Men look into cockpit and other areas of various jet aircraft. Cadets look at an exhibition of snakes in pit. A toy balloon in the pit area. Sergeant milks venom from rattle snake into glass tumbler. Sergeant holds head and tail of rattle snake.
PT-10 rescue boat underway. Pontoon of SA-16 taxiing. Two Air Force PT-10 rescue boats. PT-10 rescue boat near life raft. Men lifting stretcher baskets from water to deck of PT-10 rescue boat. Two men remove life vests. Cadets watch the operations. Men board PT-10 rescue boat. Sailors alert and run out to PT-10 rescue boat.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. Hand points out various switches and controls of multi-engine aircraft. Instrumental panel, throttle and switches. U.S. aircraft B-29 in flight. Parachute attachment and A-3 lifeboat dropped from the plane. Coastline in the background. Two parachutists jump in water. Trees and houses on coast. Men aboard a lifeboat.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in United States. Survival school hangar building at Eglin. A sergeant hanging from ropes shows the method of lowering self to ground. Various parachutes are displayed in survival school hangar. Airman demonstrates lowering self to ground with rope.
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