United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Official marks on the telemetry recording paper with lines on it. He turns the dial on front of the telemetry recording instrument. Woman types on a typing machine. Print on paper read 'Air Force Lt Col. Frank K Pete Everest flew Bell X-2 research rocket plane 1900 miles per hour last week, nudging close to three times the speed of sound'. U.S. Air Force B-47 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-104 A Aircraft in flight. Three F-1004 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-84F aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. U.S. Air Force Bell X-1 parked on ground. Pilot gets into cockpit of Bell X-1A aircraft. Bell X-2 on static thrust as engine is fired during a test.
American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States. Flashback to 1940 of British citizens gathered in London underground tube shelters during a blitz air raid by Germany over London. A woman distributes snacks to families. Some people at a microphone provide entertainment to the waiting crowd underground during the Battle of Britain. View of aircraft drop bombs over targets on ground. Explosions due to bombing. Back in the United States, Air Raid Warden in his uniform with civil defense armband shows families how to black out basement windows with blankets. Family makes room for basement shelter. Electric gas burners used. Adequate food supplies kept in the basement. One of the room windows sealed to avoid gas entering the room. The curtain dropped quickly over the window when the alarm is raised.
Accidents and incidents at the Air Force flight test center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The United States Air Force YB-52 lands and deploys a drag chute normally. In distance another YB-52 lands in dirt off a runway and turns on the ground as the rear landing gear collapses. A B-52C Stratofortress landing. View inside the cockpit as the landing gear lever jumps out of position and the copilot holds it down. The B-52C aircraft lands with the rear gear collapsed. Another view of the same event from outside.
Spin test on the F-101A Voodoo, a United States Air Force aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. F-101A Voodoo aircraft in flight. The aircraft flies past a Lockheed T-33A photo aircraft. F-101A Voodoo stalls and descends in air while in flight.
NASA astronauts on lunar surface during Apollo 11 first moon landing mission, launched from Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. Astronaut Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin, Jr (Buzz Aldrin) walk with a monitor on surface of the moon. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package placed on the surface to deliver information about meteorite impacts and lunar movements. Laser ranging retro reflector placed on the surface of moon. Boot prints on the surface. The United States flag. The lunar module (LM) Eagle ascends from the surface of moon. View of the earth from lunar horizon.
The inauguration of the Sylvania Recreation Area in the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan, United States. People gather on a beach. People stand and talk in a group. Boys sit in a line. People click pictures as the First Lady of the United States Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey with other officials walk past a crowd. Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson talks to people and shakes hands as she walks past them. People click pictures as she walks past.
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