Technicians and officers in the laboratories and offices at WADC, United States. Animation depicts the effort output of Research and Development. The graph depicts number of unsatisfactory reports and decrease in efforts. Book entitled: "Mission of WADC." Interior of drafting room, worker is sitting at desk drawing up plans. Flight of formation of five USAF Convair B-36 aircraft. Interior of Aero Medical Laboratory, centrifuge test equipment is in operation. Pilot's face during test.
F-80s and F-86s on test stand in the United States. Pamphlet on jet propelled aircraft, stamped 'Secret', held by Air Force officer. Interior of office building, Air Force officer talks to civilian contractor. Drawings of F-80 and F-86. Interior of laboratory testing of hydraulic equipment. Equipment is mounted on test stands, meter registers 3000 lbs. per square inch. Cold weather test is being conducted on hydraulic equipment in laboratory. Technician, wearing heavy protective clothing, removes section of landing gear hydraulic system from hydraulic section of landing gear in the cold weather test chamber. USAF jet fighter F-80 Shooting Star lands at Wright Field. Technician checks landing gear wheel of an F-80. Unsatisfactory report on the wheel of the F-80 is turned in. F-80 landing. Two Air Force project officers discuss aircraft performance. One officer pointing to the wheel location, end of wing and fuselage of the F-80. Testing of wheel for the USAF F-86 Sabre in test stand. Interior of laboratory building showing wheel test instrument panel. Views of test and recording charts in operation. Stationary F-86. F-86 in initial flight, wheels down. F-86 landing at Muroc AFB.
U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) in the United States during the first flight around the world. In Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Flier Douglas World Cruiser on a lake before the hop across the Pacific to Japan. A snow-covered mountain in the background. Two cruisers. One of the cruisers warms up. One of the cruisers as it is being raised onto a Coast Guard ship. Raised aircraft engine shows engine change in Lieutenant Leigh Wade's (Pilot of the World Cruiser) airplane for a hop to Attu Island in Japan. Lt. Lowell H. Smith standing on the nose of the aircraft holding the propeller blade. A stationary cruiser on a shore. Another cruiser seen. Both are equipped with pontoons. Three of the world cruisers in flight while they are in their first flight from America to Asia. Animated map shows the dangerous route across the Pacific. The Pacific crossed by airplane. Animated map of the coastline of North America and Asia with 'Second Division Chicagoff to Kagoshima, Japan' written on the map.
Officers training at artillery school in the United States. View of the Fort Sill Field artillery school, Oklahoma. Officers look through binoculars during their gunnery training class. They learn service and firing techniques on field. They learn techniques of rocket bombardment. They learn to fly aircraft and phenomenon of meteorology. They release weather balloons. At Fort Scott, Kansas, officers load coastal guns and are trained about destroying sea borne assets. At Fort Bliss, Texas, officers learn antiaircraft techniques. Long range rocket is launched at the White Sands Proving Grounds.
United States Navy flying boat PBY Catalina of Patrol Squadron Six (V-P-6) in flight to Honolulu. American flying boat Consolidated PBY Catalina in water with monoplane construction and retractable wing floats. Mountains in the background. The PBY takes off. A boat in the water in the background. The PBY taxis down the ramp into the water. The aircraft handlers go over to take off the beaching gear. The PBY taxis. PBY fly in formation and heads for Pearl Harbor.
International Civil Air Patrol Cadets Exchange (CAP) Program in Maryland,United States. General Smith and party dine at the Andrews Air Force Base (AFB) Officers Club. General Beau in the line at buffet table. Cadets with three girls in food line. Other personnel in food line. General Smith and wife seated at table. General Beau eats food. Cadets seated with their girl friends. Foreign cadets eat and talk with girls. Orchestra or band musicians play music at the Andrews Air Force Base Officers Club. View of two saxophone players.
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