U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at Saint Louis, Missouri. F-4J test flight aircraft #155557 MAC 2833 lifts off from runway, climbs steeply and goes into a vertical attitude. Pilot and co-pilot eject. Plane continues climbing and levels off. F-4J crashes, wheels down, and explodes into a big fireball. Black smoke billows upward from flames, and drifts upward. (Both crew members survived the ejection: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.)
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in Caribbean. U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft at flight deck of ship. Engines of S2F start . Many men stand near aircraft in helmets and T-Shirts. S2F takes off.
F-105 D planes at Seymour Johnson Air Force base in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Crew chief signals to pilot and a man removes a ladder during the training. Planes taxi along the runway. Last plane to taxi out is an F-105 F.
A straight-wing Republic F-84E Thunderjet of the USAF 86th Fighter-Bomber Wing landing at Neubiberg Air Base near Munich, Germany. A USAF C-47 is holding short on the taxiway. Next, a crash truck is seen stationed on the taxiway.Across the field, Two C-47s, a B-17, and a C-54 are parked. Scene shifts to closeup of a tank truck carrying JP-3 fuel, parked next an 86th Wing F-84. An airman sits on the plane's left tip tank. The fuel truck operator and another airman pull two refueling hoses from the truck and carry them to airmen sitting on the aircraft's tip tanks. The aircraft is parked on Marsden Matting aka pierced steel planking. Closeup of the airman on the plane's right wing takes his hose and inserting it into the right tip tank. Views of him filling the tank. Two airmen are behind the fuel truck. One watches the fuel gages. Scene shifts to two airmen mechanics atop the aircraft. They are assembling and installing an avionics component. Closeup of the aircraft's crew chief, TSgt G. Cavert, sitting on the wing , next to a painting on fuselage of the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron logo: a black crow holding a bomb over its head ready to throw it. The names: Col. G. Laven and TSgt G. Calvert are painted above and below the logo, respectively. (This aircraft is F-84E-30-RE Thunderjet number 51-624 flown by the commander of the 86th Fighter Bomber Group, Colonel George Laven Jr. who flies with the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron.) Next several of the 86th Wing's aircraft are seen parked, and one airman is seated near an anti-aircraft gun, while another plays catch with someone, unseen.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. F-86 D aircraft stationary with a pilot in the cockpit. Pilot flips the switch and moves a lever. A split frame shows the tail exhaust section of the aircraft closed to a narrow opening. As the pilot moves the lever the opening vent on the exhaust is manipulated. Exhaust section of F-86D aircraft. A light blinks on instrument panel indicating an unsafe position. F-86D aircraft taxis along and takes off.
Brigadier General James Stewart at Macdill Air Force Base in Florida, United States during his two week duty training period. Two grounds men work on an aircraft. Men gathered around F-4C aircraft. Brigadier General writes on a paper as men look at him. A sign reads 'Personal Equipment'. F-4C plane in a hangar at Macdill Air Force Base with ground crew in the foreground. A trailer moves across. Brigadier General climbs up and gets into the cockpit of F-4C aircraft.
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