Aircraft from the Imperial Iranian Air Force fleet includes United States McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets. A row of Northrop F-5 fighter jets at an airfield in Iran. Sign in English and Persian reads “31st T.F. (Tactical Fighter) Squadron”. Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots attend class. A map of the Middle East showing flight paths, radii, flags of the various Air Forces in the region. Flags and roundels of the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. A bomb is installed into a jet fighter-bomber. A fuze is fitted into the bomb nose. A man wearing a jacket with an “F-5 Iran” patch. Iranian military pilots run out of a building and board trucks.
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
U.S. Navy film about aviation, entitled "Wings for the Fleet." Movie opens with view of an F-4 Phantom aircraft in flight. It displays Carrier Air Wing 15 tail code "NL,"and the number "2316" on its fuselage. Closeup of pilot in front seat of the F-4. "LT. J.G. D.H. Rogers is painted below the canopy. Change of scene to Navy warships on maneuvers. The USS King (DL-10/DLG-10/DDG-41) a Farragut Class (also known as Coontz Class) guided missile destroyer and and the Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CVA 43) with deck full of F-4 Phantom aircraft. An F-4 aircraft is seen on combat air patrol overhead. A closeup shows it is the same aircraft shown earlier, piloted by Lt JG D.H. Rogers. The F-4 rolls over and dives. Scene shifts to combat control center aboard the aircraft carrier, where controllers convey target information to the F-4. View of pilot in cockpit and his missile targeting display. He is cleared to arm missile and fire. Interior of his cockpit as he engages the arm toggle switch. The F-4 fires a missile that is seen striking and destroying a drone target, which falls flaming into the sea. Back in the control room, a sailor wipes clean the plexiglass display he was using to track the action. View of F-4s landing on the USS Coral Sea, and view from cockpit of Lt JG D.H. Rogers' plane being guided into parking position on her flight deck. His plane Captain climbs aboard the wing and helps him remove items from the cockpit. Rogers stops to discuss something with the plane Captain and they walk together towards the Carrier Island.
The first mid-air refueling at Rockwell Field in San Diego, California. 1st Lieutenant Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert pose next to the cockpit of a modified United States Army Air Service Airco DH-4B. Workmen repair a hose under the fuselage of the modified DH-4B tanker aircraft. A workman pulls the hose out from under the aircraft. A second DH-4B aircraft in the background. The modified DH-4B transfers fuel to another modified DH-4B via a hose between the aircraft. Wings of DH-4B camera airplane. The modified DH-4B tanker with the fueling hose trailing behind it. Two modified DH-4Bs. The tanker aircraft with the hose trailing below it moves away from the fueled airplane and flies away.
Pilot in the cockpit of aircraft, canopy open aboard USS Constellation in North Vietnam. Man in brown shirt attaches power hose to side of aircraft, raises his right hand and works around nose wheel of aircraft. Tie down chains removed. A-4C plane taxis slowly off to left. A-4C plane launched from first catapult. RA-5C plane on second catapult. Group of flight deck personnel in center part of deck. Men in brown shirts relax and talk after the launching. Group of A-4Cs in "V" formation and fly-by. A- 4C plane making a recovery. An ordnance man approaches up the deck with a bomb, on a bomb cart. Nose of an A-4C plane directly above his head. Men wearing brown, blue and yellow shirts under nose of an A-4C. A man in brown shirt puts ladder up to cockpit area of A-4C, climbs up the ladder, assists the pilot in unfastening his gear and talks with the pilot. The pilot hands some gear to the plane Captain. Plane Captain talks with the pilot.
Ground-crew woman carries cockpit ladder to aircraft TA-4J at Naval Air Station Chase Field. TA-4Js parked in flight line at airfield. Pilot gets down TA-4J and converses with ground-crew woman. Pilot goes under TA-4J. View inside cockpit of TA-4J. Instrument panel in cockpit. Man works with equipment in lower section of TA-4J. Pilot and other men examine aircraft. Men check wings of TA-4J.
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