Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona as seen from an airplane at low altitude. Tall shadows of the rocks.
An aircraft refueling truck before a flight.. Aerial views. Dry hilly terrain in desert Southwest. Uneven land. A few farms and grassy patches. A river flows by. Greenery on either side of the river. Large areas of red sandstone eroded in various shapes Meandering river.
Views of red sandstone mountains and outcroppings from low flying airplane, in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona. Dry rocky terrain. Shadows cast on the ground. Bright sun. Shrubs on the dry land. Big Red Rocks. Monument Valley road through the desert.
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
A group of experienced military aviator students work at classroom desks in the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School. They wear shirts and ties, but no badges of rank or ratings. Closeup of one is followed by camera panning across the room. One student sits next to a celestial globe with a geopolitical globe of the world in its center.. The student refers to the model as he works. Scene is interrupted by a slate and picks up again for a retake at beginning of the film. A brief slate is followed by view of students performing calculations and charting data points on graph paper.
A pilot at the Aerospace Research Pilot School in Edwards Air Force Base, California, is seen seated in the Reaction control simulator used to practice controlling space vehicles. He reaches up to pull down a cover. An Air Force Sergeant, monitoring the device, secures it and small hatch at its front. Next, the camera focuses on the simulator, which is seen to move very slowly under the control of the pilot inside. After a while, the simulator makes a significant turn to the left, followed by an increase in elevation, and a turn to the right and what appears to be a return to its initial starting position.
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