Testing of the Celestia Autonavigator is presented under the Missile Project MX770. Technician makes gyro test of Celestial Autonavigator in laboratory. ADS C-47, a flying test laboratory is in flight. Animation shows assembly of a auto-navigator step by step. A graph plot of error against time shows exponential error for pure gyro test while continuous fluctuating error for star checked test.Technician checks auto-navigator in the laboratory.
Position control system of a missile during flight under missile Project MX770 are explained. An auto pilot controls the flight through Reads Electronic Analog Computer or REAC. Disturbances like wind, dust or engine failure are evaluated from flight equation. The auto pilot control the path of the flight through hydraulic server. Generally the movable control system is mounted on hinges of a plane as shown in the TL-238. The rotatory equator moves the control system and positions the flight correctly.
Schematic diagram of rocket motor power plant of RTV-A-5 and Navaho 2 missiles is given. Various parts of the motor are shown and their position is specified. Animation shows pathway of fuel to combustion chamber. Vertical and horizontal view of rocket in test stand is given. Day and night view of rocket fired from Santa Susanna field are shown.
Vertical view of operation stand is shown. A gantry crane transfers rocket from operation stand to (73000 lb thrust) static test stand. Technicians control rocket through automatic sequencing and firing panel from the control block house. As the rocket is fired, thrust impact and smoke are seen. Technicians are visualizing and controlling the rocket . A diagram of rocket motor and animation of fuel path is also given.
Natural wealth of Arizona is shown. Canyon and desert with huge sonoran cactus in Arizona are seen. Mining operations with digger loading rail cars. Huge explosion from dynamite blasting in a mine. Men examine ancient petrified wood trees. Logging, timber, and lumber operations: Two workers operate a two man manual saw and cut a large Ponderosa Pine tree into sections. Dry desert area shown, and then contrasted with irrigated lands as men package harvested carrots. Oranges shown up close growing on citrus orange trees. Mountain peaks shown covered with snow. Two young boys in cowboy clothing sit on a fence and smile. Cowboys graze their cattle animals. Cowboy crosses a field on horseback silhouetted by a bright sunny sky background. City buildings and automobile traffic on the roads of an Arizona city contrasts with rural native American Indian tribal life. A native American Indian woman stands with a baby outside of a traditional hut build with mud and logs. An orange and silver colored modern locomotive races toward the camera position and passes by showing various train cars. Reenanctor playing part dressed as a Spanish conquistador. Spanish mission San Jose de Tumacacori is shown -- a historical monument of Arizona. A man prospecting walks amid rocks with his burro. He picks up a rock and hits on it with a hammer or chisel. Camera shows a vulture flying ominously overhead with a bright blue sky behind. A rattlesnake slithers across the desert ground. Bones of a dead human lying on desert floor. Sign for Tombstone Arizona, and actors portray residents of Tombstone, talking on town streets and fighting cowboys in a pistol firefight. A cowboy (actor) falls, show under a covered wagon. Views of gate at Boothill Graveyard with tombstones. Cross bearing text "Alfred Cantrell. Shot 1881." Another says "Ernest Brodines. Murdered 1882." And a third "M.E. Kellogg. 1882. Died natural death." Next grave crosses are: "Holderman Brothers. Hanged" also "Dan Kelly - hanged" and others.
Mine workers board an elevator lift at the "Copper Queen" copper mine in Bisbee, Arizona, which also produces lead and zinc. Smoke arise from huge industrial chimneys of smelter plant smelting copper in nearby Douglas Arizona. Mining train emerges from mine on tracks and dumps raw material for copper. Workers move carts of ore by hand and dump them. Workers and mechanized diggers work at other non-metallic mines in Arizona. Mountainous region with dry soil is seen. View of Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River. Men lift wooden blocks to allow water flowing in canals and utilized for irrigation on farms in the Salt River Valley. Lettuce, tomato,carrot and cabbage fields are shown. A man puts a ladder up against and tree and picks citrus fruits from a tree such as oranges or grapefruits. A date tree in a date tree grove is hand pollinated. Close up view of hands of a farmer examining wheat crops and holding wheat in a field. A harvester operates in a barley field. Gunny bags of wheat piled in an area are moved by workers from a truck onto an automated mover. Men stack the bags. Huge stacks of bales of cotton and a man in hat and tie examining the raw cotton. Alfalfa plants shown in field and being baled. View of Coolidge Dam on the Gila River near Globe, Arizona. Imperial Dam on the lower Colorado River is shown next. View of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. Hydroelectric generators and power lines are seen. Elevated view of Lake Mead. People wave from a motorboat on Lake Mead. Children splash and play in the lake water. A man in a small boat fishing on Lake Mead.
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