Cold war era film opens with animated slideshow view of latest Soviet Jet Interceptor and Fighter Aircraft. (Narrator mistakenly identifies the Flagon as a Su-11 but it is a Su-15.) MiG including MiG-23 planes developed by aircraft designers Mikoyan and Gurevich (MiG). Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) Admiral Thomas Connolly discusses the development of United States fighter aircrafts. US aircraft F-8 Crusader landing on an Aircraft Carrier deck. U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom fighter taking off from a Carrier deck. Aerial closeup view of formation of F-4 planes in flight. New F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft described by Connolly.
Paris Air Show. Four F-4E aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team (Thunderbirds) make a formation takeoff and performs precision aerobatics in formation. A single F-4E takes off and executes roll during climb. Spectators watch the aerobatics in the exhibition.
Wright Brothers plane "Kitty Hawk" is catapulted by old fashioned catapult. Men gathered near it. Two men hold model of flying boat NC-4. They test the effect of wind on the model in a wind tunnel. U.S. Navy men parade. Huge crowd gathered to watch the parade. Stern of the U.S. Navy Transport ship USS George Washington. Men on stern wave. Fleet underway. Civilians with old aircrafts in view. Old British sea plane goes overboard. NC-4 and its crew members in it. Admiral stands nearby.
Bomb handling aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. Ordnance man wheeling Snakeye bombs on a cart. Aviation Ordnance men push the bombs under the wing of A-4C aircraft. Men unscrew a pressure screw on side of bomb rack. Two Snakeye bombs wheeled under the pylon of A-4C. Snakeye bombs lifted up to the pylon. Bombs hooked up to the rack. Aviation Ordnance men lifts a bomb. Three bombs secured to the pylon. A man unscrews a heavy rod from nose of a bomb. A man prepares a fuse for insertion into nose of bomb. Aviation Ordnance men work with bombs. A cart carrying bomb fuses wheeled on the flight deck. A man picks up a wire and a fuse and inserts in nose of bomb. Man works with safety wires. Snakeye bombs lifted up to the pylon. Fuses are screwed in. Men wearing red shirts sit on bombs in carts.
366th Fighter Wing crew members at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. Air crews of 366th Tactical Fighter Wing scramble to their F4E aircraft, sheltered in revetments covered with individual semicircular reinforced roofs.(Sound heard in first part of the clip is radio chatter unrelated to the images.) Crew chiefs help the pilots and backseaters (weapon systems officers) to strap in. Pilot seen and heard receiving, acknowledging, and dialing in the local altimeter setting. Closeup of sharks mouth painted on aircraft. Red rotating light on vehicle roof (unseen). Closeup of assorted airborne weapons slung under an F-4E. Crew chiefs remove safety pins and covers from weapons of both aircraft. Crew chief secures nose panel on aircraft.
366th Fighter Wing crew members at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. F-4E Phantom II Aircraft taxi and takes off from runway. Number of F4-E Phantom II parked in the background. Pilots communicate with the crew in the control room. Lights on side of the runway. (Note: An open mike in the control tower , and/or elswhere, causes communications with aircraft, as well as personal conversations to be heard in background through entire film. A VNAF controller is heard among others on the air.)
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