Prototype (XF2D-1) of the U.S. Navy F2H McDonnell Banshee jet fighter plane during an introductory flight over Missouri in January, 1947. The aircraft carries the name Banshee on its forward fuselage, and identification number, etc. on its empennage.
Senate War Investigating Subcommittee Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. is seen holding a head phone speaker to his good ear as he listens and reacts silently to testimony of others at the hearing.
Funeral of German Major General Adelbert Schulz in the Ukraine. He was killed, standing in the open hatch of a tank, while attacking Soviet positions in Shepetivka, Ukraine. Field Marshal Erick von Manstein lays wreath on the grave. View of wreath from Rothenburg Panzer Regiment. Soldiers stand near the grave. Soldiers give gun salute in honor of the General.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People buy newspaper at newsstand. Election campaign activities. People listen to political candidates. Japanese politicians campaigning in Tokyo. People go to polling booth and cast their votes. Woman puts ballet paper in box. People watch tabulation board for results. Man stand on ladder at the board. The National Diet Building. Emperor Hirohito on throne. Emperor Hirohito addresses the National Diet. He reads the declaration. Speakers on rostrum. The 1947 Japanese Constitution opened. Pages are turned over. Officials enter the Japanese Supreme Court. The court in session. Police instructor lectures police and they make notes. A policeman helps two civilians at a Koban or police box in Sukiyabashi in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Traffic police on crossroad controls traffic. A policeman picks up a ball on road and returns it to baseball player. Witness comes in court and bows. Japanese politicians in meeting around table.
The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.
Sign on car reads “Nuffield Exports.” A 1947 Morris Eight Series E automobile is pushed onto a lift platform by dock workers. Car is secured and then foreman gives the signal to lift. Another car is loaded on the platform and lifted. Close up of foreman giving the lift signal. A Matador truck chassis with drivetrain dangling via crane above a ship's cargo hold area. Workers rotate truck while it is lowered.