A pilotless rocket driven missile travels at twice the speed of sound. Two scientists push a trolley with the missile. Men check equipment on the launch pad. A man tracks the missile by radar. The rocket powered missile takes off leaving a trail of smoke. The missile in flight. An official observes the missile in air. A military ambulance and truck at the launch site.
Logs piled up in California A crane near the pile. Logs on a truck.
Wine making in California. Numerous bunches of newly harvested green grapes and red grapes are dumped into bins and moved on conveyor belts as the process of making wine begins.
Fresh pumpkins in California. Pumpkins piled up for transportation. Trucks in the background.
A large farm of lettuce, in California. Farmers sitting at side of the field. Scene shifts to a low wing monoplane crop duster, with cantilevered wings and fixed gear, flying just a few feet above the field, spraying.
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
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