Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Seamen dressed in marine disaster suits. Seamen help each other while donning the suits. The tanker fleet conducts life boat rescue drills. Seamen climb into life boats. Life boat is lowered in water. Life boat carrying seamen underway. Merchant Seamen row the life boat using oars.
Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Men of the tanker fleet in engine room. Men at controls in the engine room. Engine room operation by merchant seamen. A man takes reading from a meter. Equipment and machines in the room. A sign reads 'When bell rings, all hands on deck'. Men walk in the engine room. Men operate machines.
Merchant Seamen aboard an oil tanker ship in United States. Men of the tanker fleet in sleeping quarters. A bunk bed in view. Two men lay on the bed. A man sleeps while another reads a book. Both of them get up and don their marine disaster suits. Both men rush out of the room. Clothes hang on hooks. Merchant Seamen use stairs.
Ground and air search operations for missing crewmen of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 aircraft of 99th Bomb Wing. The plane crashed against the side of Elephant Mountain, Maine. Brigadier General Alvan C Gillem II (Commander 57th Air Division, SAC), Major General James H Walsh (Deputy Commander, SAC, 8th Air Force ), doctor, medic and ambulance driver waiting for arrival of helicopter at Dow Air Force Base, Maine. CH-3B landing and taxiing to stop as directed. B-52 survivors, Captain Gerald Adler (navigator) and Lieutenant Colonel Dante Bulli (flight commander) transferred from aircraft, by Pararescueman TSgt Gene Slabinski, to field ambulance.
NASA Freedom Seven, America's first sub-orbital flight. Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain underway. Marine helicopter HUS-1 above the capsule as it descends down after the flight. Capsule near surface of water. HUS-1 lifts the capsule. Another HUS-1 in flight. Mercury capsule lowers. Crowd on aircraft carrier. Capsule lowered on special pad on carrier. Landing bag collapsed and tied-down. Landing on aircraft carrier deck. Commander Alan B Shepard assisted by copilot in the helicopter. Commander Alan B Shepard and others on flight deck. Commander Shepard retrieves his helmet from capsule and walks in Admiral's cabin. He gets out of his space suit. Doctor Robert Laning and Jerome Strong beside him. President Kennedy congratulates him on phone. He talks to other officers. He drinks from a glass. He climbs aboard a Grumman S2F/TF aircraft on deck. Personnel on super structure of carrier. The plane takes off.
Several attempts to fly ornithopters, intended to fly by flapping of wings. They manage to move their wings but fail in attempts to fly. The largest of them might be Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter, which was demonstrated in Germany and had a 3 horse power motor.
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