Pilots receive 'avigation' training in Rockwell Field, California. Pilot students in an airplane, which departs for Rockwell Field. Pilot looks at a map. Aerial view of downtown San Diego and the Hotel del Coronado. View of the fields, mountains, and ship at sea. Student pilots disembark from plane. Two officers give instruction regarding instrument flying and navigation. A map on a board in the background. Various bullet points regarding ground and air instructions for instrument navigation appear on the screen.
Group of instructors and students stand in front of O-38 airplane in Rockwell field, California. Pilot and student board the plane. Cockpit of O-38 shows controls and instruments panel. O-38 instrument panel shows artificial horizon, altimeter and ball-bank indicator. Closeup of the Sperry artificial horizon instrument. A chart of Artificial Horizon shows how the instrument operates. A Directional Gyro in the hands of a pilot. This is marked as a 'Turn indicator A.C. type B-2' Chart shows how the directional Gyro operates. Sensitive Altimeter in hands of a pilot. A rate of climb indicator in the hands of a pilot.
Avigation training to students in Rockwell field, California. Instructor in rear cockpit of O-38. Student under blind flying hood in front cockpit of O-38. Instructor talks on the radio. Student pulls the blind flying hood over front cockpit. Plane takes off. Man works on the engine. Chart shows how radio compass operates in connection to radio range station. High altitude view of radio towers on the field. Chart shows entry and approach of the plane making landing by use of radio range stations. Chart shows line and angle of approach of planes landing by the use of radio.
Refugee camp at Rio Grande in United States during the U.S. Army punitive expedition seeking Pancho Villa . Refugees pass by on the field. A donkey on the field. Refugees on the horse-carts. Other men on horses. Refugees sit outside the camps. They prepare food. Horses on the field. Mexican refugees sit on the field. Medic gives first aid to people.
View of the fireball from nuclear test shot "Whitney," the 22nd full-scale nuclear test of Operation Plumbbob. Flash lights the pre-dawn darkness of Yucca Flat. The "Whitney" device was detonated atop a 500 foot tower. ID Source(s) DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Photo Library.
"Owens," the tenth shot of Operation Plumbbob, is fired at an altitude of 500 feet from a plastic balloon at 6:30 am civilian time on July 25, 1957. The nuclear test yields 9.7 kilotons (equal to 9,700 tons of TNT). A brilliant flash gives way to an orange fireball which quickly begins to cool and churn skyward. Mushroom cloud forms fast. Cameraman slate at beginning of clip identifies the shot as Owens.
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