USSAF B-29 Superfortress units at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft taxis on the runway and takes off from the Smoky Hill Air Force Base. United States Air Force C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft low in flight over airbase. The cameraman places equipment in a truck.
USAAf B-29 Superfortress units at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. A gasoline truck pulls up to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft at Smoky Hill Air Force Base. Refueling of the B-29 aircraft. The gasoline truck backs up to the B-29 aircraft. United States Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft and a liaison aircraft in the background. The doors of the gasoline truck open. A hose is pulled out and handed up to a man on top of the aircraft wing.
Victim of drug abuse and drug dealing is interviewed in jail. He is questioned about the pills used and their effects on his memory and body. He answers the officer. Officials of drug administration seize the drugs. They investigate the drug smugglers and illegal distribution channels. A man sells drugs illegally. Officials arrest the drug dealers involved in selling drugs illegally. The Congress enacts the Drug Abuse Control Amendments. United States President Lyndon Johnson signs law on July 15, 1965 and speaks about drug abuse and illegal drugs like bennies and goofballs.. Commissioner of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), James L Goddard, discusses the role of FDA in reducing drug addiction. Actor Paul Newman speaks about preventing misuse of drugs.
A film titled 'Make America first in the air' on the development of air power of the United States. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas. A covered wagon train moves along a desert terrain. Mountains in the background. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas, and continuing through New Mexico and Arizona to California. Railroads decreased the time taken to cover the distance between the places to four days. A train using a steam locomotive moves to the right along a double track. Animation over a map of the U.S. with a line from New York to California. Airways further reduced the time taken to cover the distance to 27 hours. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight.
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.
In the context of Unidentifed Flying Object (UFO) research: Narrator describes the sixteen cameras of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as camera shows one, of atop a multistory building. A map shows several locations in the state of Nebraska. Next, in a closeup, Dr. Richard E. McCrosky, Director of SAO, shows a model of a small building housing aerial mapping cameras. He removes the roof of the model to show how the cameras are installed and turned on by light sensors. He shows a film of a bright object photographed by such a camera installation. Asked about other inputs, Dr. McCrosky mentions the satellite tracking network, and a map shows the 12 stations about the world. McClosky shows a model of a tracking camera contained in those installations. He shows a photograph of the Gemini rendezvous, when the NASA Gemini spacecraft numbers 6 and 7 came close to each other on December 15, 1965. Scene shifts to views of large radar installations and observatories, including equipment inside one. Animated view of Mariner space probe passing the planet Venus. Giant radar antennas rotating. Views of the milky way galaxy and our solar system. Photos of nebulae from the Mount Palomar Telescope. Radio telescope installations, including the one in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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