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.
A sailor, in foul weather gear, leans on the barrel of a heavy gun, aboard a U.S. Navy ship, and looks through a telescope toward a submarine cruising on the surface. U.S. Destroyer, Manley (DD-74) in camouflage paint, at anchor. U.S. Battleship Texas, anchored. U.S. Battleship, Florida, with a support vessel at port side. Starboard view of USS Florida. Forth rail bridge over Firth of Forth visible in distance. In a different location, perhaps the United States, a U.S. Destroyer, with other ships in background, is seen through a cloud of sea birds wheeling about the photographers ship. Periscope of a submerged submarine leaving wake as it moves underwater.
Views of what appears to be a smooth launching of a Titan missile. The service structure erector is released and the missile takes off. The camera tracks it as it moves ever higher, with rocket motors burning smoothly. As its image begins to get quite small in the distance, at TC:01:26, the missile begins failing, and explodes in a huge fireball. (Note: This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.) This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.
View from inside an AC-119K Stinger Gunship during live fire training missions. Hand of a crewman on the fire control panel in the gunship. He flips toggle switches enabling the four GAU-2/A miniguns on the AC-119K. Views of a gun firing in broad daylight. Another view of firing in dusk with stream of tracers visible. The gunship is with the 4413th Combat Crew Training Squadron with home base at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio. But the live fire gunnery training is being carried out in the vicinity of Hurlburt Field, Florida.
General activities at Eglin Field show preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. U.S. General Doolittle stands with the pilots and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell parked in the background. Crewmen work on the wheel of a B-25 and General Doolittle looks at them. A pilot looks out from the window of the plane. General Doolittle stands with a pilot and talks to him. Crewmen and pilot stand around a B-25. A B-25 inside a hangar. Crewmen seated on a trolley. B-25s parked in a line. A crewman on a ladder works on a jet engine.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Cypress Point Golf Course Pebble Beach, California. The President gets in a golf cart and travels through the golf course. Photographers run along with his cart. President Eisenhower practices putting on a green. Trees in the background. People watch him putt. The photographers take photographs. The President joins a foursome to play. The other three men stand with their drivers and watch as the President Tees off. They walk through the course. President Eisenhower hits an iron to the green. The entry sign reads 'Cypress Point Club'. Cars drive through the club area and arrive at a building. A direction board reads 'seventeen mile drive Pebble Beach Lodge'. A sign board on the top of a building reads 'Del Monte Forest'.
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