Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit through nose door. RATO (Rocket assisted take off) bottles on flight line at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Strategic Air Command emblem on side of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. The aircraft takes off from runway. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber rolls down the runways and deploys drag parachute.
Rocket engine nozzle at launching. The engine rises slowly from launch pad. An engineer behind control panel. A rocket launches a captured German V-2 rocket/WAC Corporal Bumper 8 from Pad 3 of Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Two United States Air Force Convair F-106As Delta Dart in flight. Aerial view of launch complexes. Titan II missile is launched. The Titan II missile explodes mid-air. A huge ball of fire from Titan II explosion. A scientist uses a tracking camera during a Titan II rocket launch. Footage from camera shows the first stage separation of the Titan II. The booster blasted away at second stage ignition. Various tracking stations covering the Atlantic missile range. A satellite dish recording telemetry data. Observatory dome with telescope rotating. The USS HH Arnold (T-AGM-9) missile tracking ship at sea. A re-entry vehicle is seen re-entering the atmosphere. A United States Air Force Lockheed JC-130B Hercules equipped with a trapeze structure snatching an Aero kite balloon suspended from a ship. Air Force Missile Test Center and its logo. View of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida (840 Falcon Ave. Building 720 Patrick AFB, FL 32925). Various missiles on display in front of the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab at Patrick Air Force Base. Engineers working in the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab. An engineer examines a magnetic tape from an IBM console in the EDP room. An Air Force Missile Test Center report. A Gemini space capsule is being lowered. NASA personnel watch the capsule. Sign reads “Gemini / Titan II Man Rated Complex Martin Company”. Lt. Colonel John G. Albert Chief of the Gemini Launch division, 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at the entering gate. A blockhouse in the background. Colonel Albert inspects Gemini’s boosters. He is at the launch control in the blockhouse.
JCS Strike Command Exercise Bold Shot at Eglin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force Convair C-131 aircraft, equipped with belly radome, takes off from the runway during the exercise.
U.S. President John F Kennedy at an air show in Florida,United States. President Kennedy arrives at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. President with the Chief of Staff of United States Air Force General Curtis LeMay. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson seated. Aircraft (F-100's) in formation flight as they drop bombs. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Mass mid air refueling being demonstrated by F-100s getting fuel from KB-50 tanker aircraft. President Kennedy and General LeMay look on. An F-101 aircraft hits a drone plane with air to air missiles. (Narrator mistakenly calls them F-102s.) F-100 aircraft drop Napalm bombs. The bombs flip end over end during descent and explosions are seen as they impact.
Pilot Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with nineteen assist take off rockets firing, takes off from the runway at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.
A small motorcade of three cars led by a red open convertible carrying President John F. Kennedy, Air Force General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr. in the back and Secret Service agents and another Air Force officers in the front. An Air Force open stake truck carries members of the press and photographers, driving alongside the President's car. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel in a flight suit, standing by a microphone, salutes as the President's car pauses and listens to him speak. The President's car is next seen parked near a C-130 transport aircraft, and surrounded by Air Force photographers taking pictures. A formation of F-105 aircraft flies low overhead. Close view of the President and occupants of the red car watching the formation. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel wearing a flight suit speaks to the President who points toward the flight line, where numerous aircraft are parked on static display. The first seen are F-105s. View from moving car as it proceeds along the flight line. Next an F-100 aircraft is seen. then an F-84F; an F-104; Several Navy tactical aircraft including an F-4 Phantom fighter. A Douglas A-1 Skyraider is the last fighter type seen. Parked behind it is a C-124C cargo aircraft, and next to it is a C-133 cargo plane with six crew members who salute as the President's car passes. The President's car stops near a C-130 aircraft. View from behind General Sweeney and the President. Next, Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Strickland is seen speaking. He is in fatigues and wears the Tactical Air Command patch on it. Closeup of the President listening to him. Formation of 24 F-105s and 24 F-84Fs flies overhead. Closeup of the President watching them. Film ends showing the formations overhead.
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