Naval Air Development Center projects building. Centrifuge passes overhead. Technician in control room looks through a large window out to centrifuge. Centrifuge arm in motion around room. Centrifuge stops. Centrifuge arm stopped at control room platform. Doors open and two technicians step from centrifuge. Technicians open centrifuge door and enter. NASA astronaut Alan Shepard leaves centrifuge. Doctor peels tape from Astronaut's body after run. Technician takes air-foam cushion into centrifuge. Captain DK Slayton assisted in dressing room with flight suit. Astronaut Slayton puts on helmet. Mike hooked to helmet. Captain Deke Slayton seated in centrifuge. Captain waits for run. Centrifuge starts to whirl around room. Technicians in control room. Centrifuge turns on boom. Astronaut during G-force run. Machine slows down and astronaut relaxes. Doctor checks instruments in control room. Astronaut's heart beat on oscilloscope during run.
Astronaut training and testing: Astronaut John Glenn Junior approaches the centrifuge gondola and takes his seat. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his suit during the centrifuge run.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn Junior seated in the centrifuge gondola during its run for astronaut training and testing. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his body.
Astronaut John Glenn Junior seated in the centrifuge gondola during astronaut training and testing run. Various instruments attached to his helmet and onto parts of his body.
Air Force personnel look towards the skies. Bombers in flight drop bombs at rocky areas. Smoke rises from the heavy blast. Flaming fields. Bomber flies low. Another blast raises huge clouds of smoke. Many planes drop bombs, flying low. Aircraft seen in this firepower demonstration include: B-26, B-17,F-80 and P-61 aircraft. The bombers are also seen in flying in formations.
C-119 (Flying Boxcar) Aircraft takes off. Formation of C-119s in flight. Rear door of plane opens and pallet of supplies is dropped. Paratroopers jump from the planes. Paratroopers land. An army 2 1/2 ton truck moves at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A 100 ton tank is shown next to a normal size tank and it is shown operating in water.
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