Men swab flight deck. Two destroyers underway at sea. Sunset view. Airmen prepare F6F Hellcat aircraft for flight on flight deck of USS Randolph. Aviation ordnance men work on gun. Bow of USS Randolph cuts through water. Light aircraft carrier underway.
The Cold War from perspective of U.S. military. Industry in the United States. Exterior of a factory shows stacks belching smoke. Scenes of heavy manufacturing.Steel furnace; flywheel; moving parts; machinists using drill press and lathe. Milling machine in operation. Steel fabrication; ingots; forging operations;gear cutting. Steel Bridge construction. Man rides girders suspended by cables. Concrete building construction. Electric transmission lines and facilities. Capitol building in Washington DC. The Kremlin in Soviet Union and Soviet military parade in Red Square. U.S. C-130 aircraft takes off. Helicopters fly in formation. Artillery is fired. Paratroops drop from C-130 aircraft in formation. Aircraft catapulted from carrier's deck. Rockets launched from ships. Polaris missile fired from submarine breaks surface of ocean. B-52 taking off. Formation of F-105s in flight. F-102s in flight. Troops in amphibious assault on beach. Helicopters in formation. Various missiles launched. U.S. surveyors working in an Asian country. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at mike.
Aviator Charles A Lindbergh awarded the Congressional Medal for his contribution to aviation at the White House in Washington DC. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh with President Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, Secretary of Navy Charles F Adams, Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, Secretary of Labor James J Davis, Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon, Postmaster General Walter F Brown. The President congratulates Lindbergh and talks to Anne Lindbergh.
The United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force pilot wearing orange scarf, climbs ladder to cockpit of an F-105D aircraft, followed by the crew chief, who stands on upper part of the ladder. View of pilot doing preflight check of switches in the cockpit. Closeup of him donning his helmet and oxygen mask. A shoulder patch on his flight suit reads: "Vietnam, 100 Missions F-105." Scene shifts to another pilot doing a walk-around preflight inspection on his aircraft. He climbs ladder to his cockpit. Next scene shows pilots seated in a briefing room. Several converse. Closeup of one pilot with 333rd Fighter Squadron (Lancers) patch on his flight suit. Insignia of the 333rd and 44th fighter squadrons are displayed on the back wall of the briefing room. Closeup from side of seated pilots. One smokes a cigarette. Briefing officer is seen at a podium.
American air to air missile Sparrow III seen in the United States during testing operations. United States F9F Drone aircraft in flight as a Sparrow III strikes the plane. Smoke rises and aircraft descends. Plane plunges downward and falls into the sea. Water splashes as the aircraft strikes the surface.
U.S. Air Force X-15A aircraft first unpowered drop flight and landing in California, United States on June 8, 1959. United States Air Force Boeing NB-52A aircraft with X-15 under its wing, taxis and takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California. American X-15 aircraft in captive-carry position, mated to pylon under wing of Boeing NB-52A aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Chase planes U.S. Air Force F-104A flies along NB-52A aircraft. X-15 releases from NB-52A aircraft in mid flight. Radar dish antenna records course of the flight. Pilot seated in the cockpit of F-104A aircraft. Technicians look at plotting boards and flight monitors. Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield converses with ground crew members. X-15 piloted by Crossfield lands at Rogers Dry Lake in California.
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