Crew of Strategic Air Command (SAC) Convair B-36 lined up for pre-flight inspection at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Each Crew member checks another crew member's parachute. Crew members pick up personal gear and board the aircraft. Airmen perform assigned pre-flight inspection duties, check various sections of the B-36 before takeoff.
Views of Minneapolis-Honeywell factory area during dusk. Lights in building and automobiles driving through streets.
Convair B-36 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) with engines running at Walker Air Force Base. B-36 landing. Air crew members in a room discussing a mission. (Three field grade officers in the crew.)
Airmen with their luggage boarding C-124A Globemaster II. Before repeating the event for the camera, they pose smiling. They board again, walking up the aircraft ramps beneath the open clam-shell doors.
Crew member dressed in heavy flying equipment, wearing back-pack parachute, looking into a scope.View of C-124 starting an engine. Momentary glimpse of C-124 on taxiway. (Appears to be C-124C, with nose radar, but wingtip heaters are not evident.) Views of Walker Air Force Base from C-124 taking off. B-36s parked on the airfield.
Gear of B-36 peacemaker lowered as plane lets down for landing. Crew unloads equipment from Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36, into a waiting truck.
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