A Ford Standard Sedan driven in front of a building. A hand unscrews a cap, removes a gas filter, replaces it and screws the cap. Close up of front wheel of a car. A foot on a brake. View of wheel shows brake action. A driver pulls emergency brake lever back. Close up of the wheel shows brake action. Close up of shock absorbers, standard gear shift, speedometer and gasoline gage and engine.
A worker operates a multiple drilling machine. Close up of a stem. A worker places it in a block. Close up of valve stem action. A block with all stems in place. Crankshafts revolve in a testing machine. Close up of a dial. A worker removes a crankshaft from a machine and examines it.
View of partially assembled aircraft in a large hangar. Men attach landing gear to the aircraft. Men install engines. Workers lift pieces of wings in place. Close view of engine and propeller. Overhead view of men assembling aircraft in the construction area. A man climbs stepladder to climb on a wing. Men at table upholster seats. A man inside a plane bolts a seat to the floor. View of the inside of the aircraft from the rear. A man in the cockpit checks controls and then walks to the rear of the aircraft. A man inspects the engines and the tail assembly. A few gentlemen including William B Stout at the door of the plane. Some men climb aboard.
A Stout Air Lines Flight carries passengers during an early civilian passenger airplane flight in United States People get off a bus outside a building and walk towards the "Passenger Terminal" sign. A woman, accompanied by a group of young children, buys tickets from a man behind the 'Ticket Office'. Two woman at a window. People stand outside the building. View of terminal from a field. Aircraft parked on the field. The sign above the door of the plane reads "Stout Air Lines". A man with luggage stands outside the plane. A man in uniform loads baggage over seats in aircraft. People wait to board the plane. Porters help people. The man shuts the door. The Ford Trimotor airplane taxis on the runway and takes off. The sign on the side of aircraft reads "Stout Air Lines, Detroit--Cleveland--Chicago".View of inside of the aircraft. Passengers inside aircraft cabin look out of the windows. Group of boys excitedly watches outside windows. Aerial view of countryside, a bridge over a river. View of aircraft from another aircraft. The plane lands on the runway. A man at the runway. The plane taxis to a halt and the door opens. The passengers get up and get off the plane.
A civilian narrator is speaking from the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Post, at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois. He mentions MAC missions supplying war materiel to Israel, in 1973, and the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948. Scene shifts to troops in military exercises, riding across fields in U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) and walking with their weapons and gear. An M60 Patton tank moves along a muddy road, past the camera. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne division stand in formation on a ramp next to a MAC C-141 transport aircraft. They are about to be airlifted to Europe, to participate in War games, in Germany. Some of their armor and trucks seen offloading at a destination airfield. Major John Gray, Jr. of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is interviewed, standing in front of a C-141 aircraft from the MAC 62d Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. UH-1 (Huey) helicopters deploying infantry in a field and moving away as the troops advance during an exercise. M113 APCs moving past the camera. MAC C-141s landing in Germany as they airlift the U.S. troops who participate in these exercises.Several C-141s taxiing on the airfield. A MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft with its nose hatch open and armored vehicles that it carried, parked in front of it. Closeup of turret on an M60 medium main battle tank. View of the tank being loaded into a C-5 and view inside the aircraft as the tank is maneuvered in its cargo hold.
Major Glen E Daniels of the Army Desert Training Centre in California. He stands in front of U.S. tanks and talks about movement of large units to combat zones by C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command. Soldiers load Cobra helicopters into a C-5. MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft Interior of a C-5 showing two rows of M113 armored personnel carriers stowed inside. The troops accompanying them are seen climbing stairs to an upper deck of the C-5 where they will travel. Quick closeup view of a C-5 headed toward the camera during landing. Paratroopers jumping from MAC C-141 and C-130 aircraft. First Sergeant William Lawrence Jr, of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, stands in front of a camouflaged C-130 aircraft and talks about his experience in 20 years of parachute jumping. He extols MAC's efficiency in transporting paratroopers and comments on resulting improvement of drop zone times.
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