A B-52 Stratofortress and an X-24A aircraft in flight. The Stratofortress and another aircraft in flight after taking off from Edwards AFB, California. The X-24A is released from the wing of the B-52. The X-24A aircraft in flight. It approaches Edwards AFB runway.
A showing of floral headpieces in California. A man walks with a floral headpiece along a sidewalk. A signboard reads 'Children's Hospital'. Women display different styles of floral head pieces in a show which is organized to aid the children's hospital.
Aviator Howard Hughes's H-4 Hercules amphibious plane is transported from Culver City to Long Beach. The H-4 plane is taken out from Culver City hangar in parts. A crowd milling around in front of the hangar. Huge wings of the plane moved under wires on a road. A trailer truck hauls the wing of the plane on the road. The parts of the plane are transported to Long Beach.
A flight of Hughes XF-11 aircraft over California. The aircraft being pulled by a tug, on which a number of airport workers are riding. The aircraft in level flight, clean, with gear and flaps up. U.S. Air Force insignia painted on fuselage. Pilot visible in forward tandem seat of bubble cockpit. Several views of XF-11 aircraft in flight with landing gear extended. several views of the XF-11 in level flight with landing gear retracted and then of the aircraft in process of lowering landing gear, main gear first, followed by nose gear.
Examples of early American lumber processing at Sutter's Mill saw mill replica in El Dorado County, California. Water powered saw mill in operation. A water powered vertical reciprocating saw cuts a plank of wood. Except for the saw, brackets, axle, and bearings, all parts of the saw mill are made of wood . Lumber is stacked in a wooden shed. Logs of wood loaded onto wooden carts.
Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, U.S. Air Force Reserve, is helped as he familiarizes himself with pilot's personal equipment, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, during his two-week active duty training period, in February, 1964. Aircrew Flight Equipment Specialists fit and adjust his CSU-3/P anti-G cutaway garment, seat harness, flight helmet and oxygen mask. Captain John D. Brown briefs Stewart on the Martin-Baker Mk. H-5 Ejection Seat and emergency procedures and discusses emergency equipment set up on a display board. Stewart sits in the ejection seat as Captain Brown and an equipment specialist discuss it further.
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