A county seat in the United States. A statue on a tall pillar in a small park. The U.S. flag. Buildings in the town. Traffic near the round about. Pedestrians on the side walk. A shopping area, a drug store, a shoe store. A court house. FW Woolworth store. Pedestrians cross the road.
A gathering in Kansas City to welcome General Dwight Eisenhower back to the United States after World War 2. Officers and soldiers seated during the ceremony. General Eisenhower addresses the gathering.
Views of the U.S. Army Air Forces fair hosted at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, in October, 1945.The highlights of the event were exhibits of captured German and Japanese aircraft, rockets, and equipment. A German V-2 Rocket Motor on display. Soldiers observe the rocket. A German Junkers Ju 388 Störtebeker multi-role aircraft on display. A German Messerschmitt ME-262 Schwalbe fighter on display. A German pilot's victories recorded on the side of a plane. Two soldiers take a look at a Japanese Kamikaze bomb. One of them gets into the bomb seat. American officers and soldiers view the exhibits. 'Alles Kaputt' written on the side of a German Junkers Ju-290 bomber (one of the candidate aircraft, with further development, in Germany's Amerika Bomber project for a long-range bomber capable of striking the United States). Soldiers walk under the plane. 'Transient Aircraft' written on the control tower building in the background. (World War II period).
Footage of nuclear explosion in the U.S. Trinity test of the first successful nuclear explosive device, in Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project. A mushroom cloud on the horizon. The smoke rises up into the air. Flames and black smoke from the atomic bomb explosion. Sun rays filter through the clouds. Explosion seen from a few different camera angles. (World War II period).
Aircraft system as well as normal and emergency operating procedures of the U.S. Navy T2V-1 SeaStar. A T2V-1 taxis on the airstrip. Hangars in the background. Wing span, fuselage length, height and gross weight of the plane. Diagrammatic representation of the plane's hydraulic system. The plane in flight as the landing gear opens up. Diagram of the plane's fuselage system. Total fuel load. The pilot turns on the tip tank fuel dump switch on the plane's control panel. Fuel dumped from the plane. Diagram of the plane's tanks. Diagrammatic representation of the plane's electrical system including the AC / DC systems. Diagram of the boundary layer control system.
Pre-flight procedures of the U.S. Navy T2V-1 SeaStar. Exterior inspection: Two airmen approach the plane to conduct a normal walk around inspection which includes highly important and unique inspection points. The airmen manually retract and extend the leading edge wing flap to check for freedom of movement. They inspect the ram air orifices in the nose of each tip tank, speed brake, fuel dump outlet, boundary layer control orifice, position of snubber piston, main hydraulic reservoir, and upper left fuselage. Interior inspection: The pilot in the cockpit. He inspects the engine, aircraft performance, navigation and fuel controls. He checks the electrical, navigational, air conditioning and lighting controls on the right panel and console. Pre-start Cockpit Check: The pilot adjusts the tip tank switches, oxygen supply valve, main fuel shut off switch, battery generator switch, flight instrument power switch, cabin pressure and temperature switches.
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