Two Sergeants of the U.S. Air Force 1st Commando Group, demonstrate the firepower of the AR-15 rifle, at the firing range of Hulburt Field in Okaloosa County, Florida. The Sergeants approach the firing line, load A-15 rifles and assume prone firing position from which they demonstrate single-shot operation of the A-15, firing at unconventional targets, including containers of water, boxes, concrete blocks, etc. They then repeat the demonstration from standing position, firing from the hip, employing short bursts of automatic fire.
United States Air Force/NASA X-series of experimental aircraft flying in sky with x-15 rocket-powered aircraft attached to its wing. Shows researcher observing the aircraft, looking through binoculars and data monitoring devices on ground. Animated film showing X-15 aircraft ejected from experimental aircraft and transmitting data while in space. Also shows x-15 turning back towards earth.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. A DT-15 torpedo with air frames attached. The DT-15 is attached to the bottom of an aircraft. This is a preset control glide missile. DT-15 drops. It descends towards water. About 50 feet above water surface the air frame separates from the torpedo. Wake left by the torpedo as it goes through water. A freighter is hit by the torpedo. Explosion on the freighter. Black smoke rises up from water.
The first public showing of an X-15 rocket powered aircraft at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles, California. Motion picture cameramen take pictures. Various personnel sit down. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon speaks. The X-15 is towed out of a hangar by a tug. The Vice President shakes hands and talks to personnel while looking at the parked X-15.
USS Preble (DLG-15) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Starboard of USS Preble in view with number 15 clearly visible on her bow. Smoke rises up from her stack. Aircraft on the flight deck of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). The flight deck personnel walk past the aircraft. The aircraft scattered on the flight deck. (Note: The USS Preble (DLG-15) was decommissioned 31 January 1969, and recommissioned again, as DDG-46, on 23 May 1970.)
Roll out ceremony of American X-15 aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. United States Vice President Richard Nixon gives a speech during roll out ceremony of X-15. American X-15 comes out of the hangar. Photographers take pictures. Pilot wearing space suit gets into the cockpit of the aircraft. Technicians and engineers check the aircraft and take readings on instruments.