Film shows test of SOC (Strategic Air Command) T.171/ A-5 Turret. View of Administration Building at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Project officer converses with Airmen. The Project officer signs paper. Airmen salute and leave the room. Board reads MacDill Air Force Base Home of Sixth Air Division. Another board reads 306th Bomb Wing, Headquarters with a crest. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked on ground. Airmen install turret to Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber's tail. Airmen check radar unit of A-5 control system against ground target. Airmen load Gatling gun.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit through nose door. RATO (Rocket assisted take off) bottles on flight line at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Strategic Air Command emblem on side of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. The aircraft takes off from runway. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber rolls down the runways and deploys drag parachute.
Children and civilians inspect open clamshell door of Douglas C-124 Globemaster II nicknamed 'Old Shakey' at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Airmen in 'Class A' summer uniforms. Row of parked Boeing B-47 Stratojet bombers with an auxiliary power unit at nose of each aircraft. Children donning pilot's helmet. Civilians and children enter and leave clamshell door of Douglas C-124 Globemaster II. Civilians inspect interior of the aircraft.
Pilot Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with nineteen assist take off rockets firing, takes off from the runway at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.
Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins inspect the rocket assisted take off bottles on Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. They climb up a ladder to the cockpit. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with assist takes off rockets firing. It takes off from the runway at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.
The last flying days of 58 year old Master Sergeant George Holmes at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A U.S. Air Force C-47D Skytrain aircraft in flight. The airplane is piloted by Holmes. The airplane lands and taxis on a runway. Crew chief waves it into parking area. Master Sergeant Holmes and the co pilot in the cockpit of the airplane.
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