Women train as flight nurses. Buildings at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. Guard house entrance. A car comes by. Military Police salutes. Students, including nurses of the Army and Navy, file into lecture room. An African American woman is among the group of nurses in training. An officer before a chart. An officer lectures on air and water movements. Another officer explains on water movements on a chart. Girls listen and make notes. An officer lectures on various pressures illustrating his talk on blackboard. A woman officer explains inter-personal relations. Students, some in Naval uniforms, whereas some in Army uniforms ask questions.
Two night trains collide on the Georgia railroad. Cranes try to lift the train engine and the carts. Rescue workers try to clear the railroad. Two engineers and one fireman die in the accident.
Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Demand for coal in various parts of the world. Shipping of coal via export from United States to other countries in the early 1920s. Coal car lifter picks up coal car. Train carries coal to different regions of United States. Train passes through snow covered countryside in United States. Availability of Anthracite coal in United States.
Italian army movement during World War 1. Italian infantry, in full field gear,moving out of a train station. A passenger train underway behind them. They proceed from assembly area upward along trail into mountainous terrain. Italian cavalry accompany them.Italian troops manually haul a large siege mortar up the trail. Some soldiers are seen on bicycles.Tractors and trucks pull large artillery gun, upon which soldiers sit. A tank makes its way up a hill.
Naval commissioned officers sit at table and talk. View of trainees entering Naval Aviation School Command building 633 on grounds of Naval Air Station Pensacola. Graduates from officer candidate school, Naval ROTC, and the Naval Academy sit in class and officer shows them model of aircraft and tells about its parts and functions. They study the functions of aicraft engines, viewing a model of an engine. They learn to take readings of airspeed and learn about navigation and aerodynamics. Close-up of monitor needles showing Lift, Drag, and Speed. They sit in a ejection simulator to experience the sensation of being ejected from an aircraft. They wear flight gear and learn how to function at 30,000 feet altitude. They perform callisthenic exercises, include jumping jacks, pushups and running, and they stay fit on an obstacle course. They get training in a swimming pool including use of a Dilbert Dunker to learn how to escape a submerged aircraft after ditching in water. They learn land-sea survival skills, and are seen training in a pool and in the open ocean, simulating survival situations at sea and on land. They practice escaping a parachute harness at sea, and how to board a life raft from the water. A pilot practices bailing water out of the life boat using his flight helmet. On land, they make a tent in the forest using their parachute, they learn to build and set snares to capture small animals. They learn about edible plants. Trainees seen gathered around a camp fire at night, cooking. Officers in uniform view T-28 Trojan aircraft flying overhead.
Pilot trainee in advanced flight training, United States. F-9 Cougar before takeoff and then in in flight. Pilot performs aerobatics in flight, like wingovers, rolls and loops. Pilot at simulated flight training siting in a basic jet simulator learning radio navigation. Pilot in flight learn Deduced Reckoning (DR) navigation. Instructor deprives trainee of part of system in flight to test him. View of readout on Nautical Miles Indicator Instrument disappearing. Pilot practices informing control about lost TACAN.
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