Early civilian air travel with Junkers passenger aircraft in Northern Europe. A Junkers F 13 plane in flight. Aerial view of Riga as seen from an aircraft approaching for landing. Bridges, palaces, and lakes are also seen. Horse drawn carriage cross a bridge in Riga (present day capital of Latvia). Boats docked along Riga port. A Latvian mailbox for airmail reads “Gaisa pasts. Correspondence.”. A woman drops letters on the mailbox outside a building.
United States Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration at the 27th Paris Air Show in Le Bourget Airport as part of its European Tour during the Cold War. People watch a lone Blue Angels aircraft (Grumman-built F-11A Tigers) flying low over the airfield leaving a streamer of white smoke. A pair of Blue Angels' aircraft in formation over the field. Blue Angels' seen climbing steeply in formation, leaving streams of pink and blue smoke. Front view of a Blue Angels aircraft in box formation on fly-over leaving streamers of smoke. Blue Angels aircraft climbing, turning sharply, leaving streamers of smoke in the sky. An aircraft flying over the field, moving in to inverted flight. Front view of the Blue Angels aircraft in box formation, the aircraft begin parting, moving away from each other and closing back in single type formation, making a speed dive off to the left and back into box formation.
A petty officer leads a newly hired female system maintenance officer to a corridor. The petty officer asks the woman officer some questions. “Secretarial? You gonna work on the skipper’s office?” he asks the woman. “No, I am not even in administration” the woman answes the petty officer, as a blond mechanic passes by. They leave the corridor. A man posts a VF-124 Flight Schedule. The man explains how pilots are now training as part of the transition to Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and so most maintenance will become turnaround inspectors. United States Navy sailors perform a FOD (Foreign Object Debris) walkdown at NAS Miramar California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer shows tiny bits of metals and objects sailors picked from FOD walkdowns. The woman Ensign holds a small piece of metal.
A petty officer gives a newly hired woman officer a tour of the Naval Air Station Miramar, California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer showing the hangar of the NAS Miramar to the female maintenance officer. Electronics technician checking the radar of a Grumman F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Petty officer takes his new colleague to the maintenance control desk. A man talks to a chief at the maintenance control desk. A squadron man repairing an aircraft part at the AIMD or Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment. Mechanics repair a piece of aircraft wing or tail.
Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft landing at the Naval Air Station Miramar (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States), California. A man walks past a fuel tanker. A mechanic in front of dashboard. Squadron support crew with parachutes. A man communicates from a control tower. Crew shows a new helmet to an airman. A petty officer and a woman system maintenance officer tour the survival equipment room where pilots suit up before a flight. The pilot raises his concern about a mask to crewman.
A U.S. Navy petty officer wearing a flight helmet talks to a newly hired female officer on airfield at Naval Air Station Miramar, California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer rests his arm over a machine. A mechanic repairing on a fighter aircraft calls the petty officer for help. The petty officer turns the machine on. The female officer turns a toggle switch on at the request of the mechanic, after the petty officer appears confused by the request. Hose attached to a Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter. Electronics technician adjusts an equipment. Technician wipes his forehead in relief. A woman in an office hands over a piece of equipment to a technician. She removes a piece of paper from the board beside her and gives it to the technician to complete the check-out form.
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