The launch of A-4 guided missile at Peenemunde, Germany. After development and testing the A-4 (V-2) missile is declared operational. A painter paints the missile. A-4 being lowered down onto floor by a large crane. A-4 lowered on a ramp. It is lowered onto a special trailer to haul the missile to the launching site. Large tractor hauls the missile out of a building. A-4 on a special type of trailer is transported to the firing range. It is erected into firing position. Final firing preparations. Workmen stand on a ladder and work on the missile. Oxygen is fueled into the A-4 missile. (World War II period).
F4U with tail code "V" in flight, during the Korean War. View of an Aircraft carrier from the air. Controller tracking an aircraft with sighting equipment on deck of an aircraft carrier. AD-4 Skyraider aircraft on final approach passes overhead of camera. Another AD-4 lands. Flagman directing landing aircraft. An F9F of CVG-5 (Tail code "S") lands. An F4U passes over the camera. Another F4U of CVG-5, lands, followed by a Skyraider. Another AD-4, of VA-55, CVG-5, lands in a partial crab and manages to straighten and stop. Pilot walking away from his aircraft. Deck crewman examines plane's wheel and brakes, as well as damage in wing. An aircraft being lowered on elevator. Aircrews in ready room discussing missions. View of aircraft carrier's wake. Another carrier visible in distance.
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at St. Louis, Missouri. It was test flight #155557 MAC 2833. The F-4J aircraft taxis for take off, lifts off and climbs steeply. Pilot and co-pilot eject. (Both survived: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.) Plane moves flatly through air in vertical position. It loses all speed. Aircraft falls flatly, impacts runway and explodes into a huge fireball. Black smoke billows up from impact area. Plane continues to burn. F-4J ablaze. Crash crew makes way to fire. Ambulance on ground. Pilot Pilcher and Radar Observer Begay meet-up together with other personnel on the airfield and observe the blazing aircraft from which they had ejected. They walk around a military station wagon. The two crew members examine ejection seat on runway. Ejection seat resting on runway. Two pilots get into a station wagon with other civilian personnel. Collapsed chute laying on grass. View of ejection seat. Blown canopy, other debris lying about runway in the background. F-4J still ablaze. Fire engine enters and moves down a runway. Firemen wade knee-deep through foam while fighting fire. Heavy smoke rises from wreckage. Crashed F-4J, heavy foam in the foreground. Fireman direct more foam into opening of F-4J while smoke is pouring out.
AEF Air Service production center number 2, at Romorantin, France, in World War 1. Men and women take DH-4 wing section in assembly area. French women assemble DH-4 wings, several boxed wing sections. Workers pull boxed DH-4 wings on a dolly, spars between upper and lower wings. Workers pull DH-4 fuselage with wheels, engine and propellers to assembly line. French women attach stabilizer and rudders to DH-4 fuselage. Women sort out plane wires. Workers attach wings to fuselage of DH-4. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Port beam view of aircraft R4D that will fly to South Pole with RADM (Rear Admiral) Dufek, Captain Cordiner, Captain Hawks, and the pilot LCDR (Lieutenant Commander) Shinn. RADM Dufek with two other people standing outside doorway of R4D prior to board aircraft for flight to South Pole. RADM Dufek and crew posing for camera outside doorway of aircraft. Crew boarding aircraft. Front view of R4D equipped with skies. Men standing around R4D. R4D taxiing. Front view of aircraft parked on sea-ice runway. R4D taking off for South Pole. Several men along runway looking on.
Aircraft TA-4J parked at Naval Air Station Chase Field. TA-4J undergoes inspection. Pilot of TA-4J in cockpit. Man converses with pilot. Man at cockpit of TA-4J. Man gets down and inspects lower nose section of TA-4J. He inspects TA-4J landing gear.
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