Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Rotor blades of a helicopter in operation. Light flashes from rotor blades as they rotate at night. Rotor blades stationary with ice foundation on the edge.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Test pilot at pressure chamber in Aero Med lab uses anti G suit, crash helmet with visor and oxygen mask. A man operates a wind tunnel. A split screen shows altitude reading of 4000 feet, pilot and the pressure door. Pilot's reaction as paper cover over pressure chamber door is burst. Meter shows an increase in altitude from 4000 to 6000 feet.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. During a landing gear test pressure exerted on the wheel-wheel bearing results in a fire.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Pilot seat ejection test conducted at a lab building. A test pilot in a seat as his hand throws a switch and starts an operation of pilot seat mechanism. Test of pilot seat ejection mechanism.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Electric engine generator used for firing the engines of the B-47 as officer starts its operation. A small cylinder holding hydraulic fluid hit by unseen object, a flame erupts and it burns up immediately. A B-47 aircraft lands at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. A parachute brakes trail behind as the aircraft lands. Boeing aircraft manufacturing plant with the nose section of B-47 aircraft protrudes in the scene, large shaping machine in the foreground. Operator shapes section of an aircraft fuselage at production factory. A typist at desk. A young woman operates a mimeograph machine. Civilian men office workers wearing suits sit at desks and confer on drawings and plans for aircraft. A man gets into a U.S. mail carrier cab. A young woman operates an adding machine and makes entries into a ledger. A steno and a woman Air Force officer file cabinets. A mechanic works on an electrical generator section of wind tunnel. A worker takes out books at a library, a female worker cuts out sections of Photostats from large roll. A document marked secret. Women Air Force officers assemble sections of paper work on aircraft. File clerk files up paper work on project. Air Force Officer and a civilian contractor discuss plans.
Brigadier General James Stewart at Macdill Air Force Base in Florida, United States during his two week duty training period. Brigadier General fitted in P anti G cutaway garment, seat harness, flight helmet and mask as officer help him out. Captain John D Brown briefs Brigadier General Stewart about F-4C ejection seat and emergency procedures as they look at some maps and papers, put up on a board. Other officers look on.
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