New Helicopter for sea rescues which acts like a flying boat and can land in 10 feet seas during recue efforts. View of helicopter in sky and then landing in water for demonstrating rescue operations.
The Cleveland Browns play New York Giants in a game that decides the first place professional standing in the Eastern division of the NFL. Huge crowd stands cheering. Jimmy Brown takes a screen pass for 72 yards and a touchdown, and then runs 32 yards for another score. Cleveland Browns wins over New York Giants with a score of 35-24.
Shows air raid drill in New York City. Demonstration of defense against air attacks is shown. Civilian spotters on roof locating position of enemy bomber planes and control informing fighter squadron. Aircraft P-40Cs taking off, B-18As in air and anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns firing. (World War II period).
Shows aircraft Curtiss CW-20B ready to take off. Crowd watching. Curtiss BW-20B taxiing out and taking off. Aircraft in flight.
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch. Narrator talking of every major U.S. city soon having such protection (early in World War 2)
Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico and mountains in the background. Scientists work with diagrams of nuclear reactors. Different equipment and nuclear rocket designs. Prototype of Nuclear reactor is made. Technicians work with KIWI experimental reactors. Towers and buildings in desert. KIWI reactor is checked in nuclear assembly. Reactor is taken to the testing area on a special rail car. Man works at a remote station to control the car. Liquid hydrogen is pumped into the reactor on rail car from near by storage tanks. Reactor tested on test stand shows flaming torch. Reactor transported for disassembly and inspection on car by remote control. Men use remote control manipulators for inspection. Exhaust gas from other reactor on test stand. Men work on diagrams. Narrator discusses next step as the NERVA program (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a combined government and private industry (Aerojet and Westinghouse) effort headed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO). Animated nuclear thermal rocket shown with NERVA technology ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application), given the letter designation NRX.
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