General Electric Company engineers work on designs for America's first jet aircraft engine during World War 2. In the company's plant, at Lynn, Massachusetts, machinists make parts for the engine and others assemble it. Company executives conversing about the enterprise. On April 18, 1942, the first engine produced is rolled into a test cell for operational testing. Engineers pull down the door to the test cell displaying the words: "Fort Knox." Engineers at control panel of the test cell. View into the test cell. GE Project manager, Donald F. Warner, actuates toggle switch to "on" position, and the engine ignites. Flame seen in rear of the engine. Complete change of location. View of Bell Aircraft company buildings. Bell engineers working on design of an airplane designated, XP-59A (Airacomet) to be powered by the new General Electric jet engine (later designated J-31 by the military). Views of the Bell engineering and production activities at secret facilities in Buffalo, New York. Two Bell workers expressing reservations about airplanes without propellers. A main intersection street scene in Schenectady, New York. Pedestrians walking and shopping. An F.W. Woolworth store on the corner. Copy of the Schenectady Gazette Newspaper, with headline about 500 planes raiding Berlin. A man buying a copy of the paper.
Official films of the flight of Bell YP-59A Airacomet jet-powered airplane, October 1, 1942. Workers at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, producing versions of increasingly more powerful jet engines: the I-16 with 1600 pounds of thrust and the J-33, with 4000 pounds of thrust. First flight, January 8, 1944, of a Lockheed P-80 shooting star fighter jet powered by the J-33 engine. Formation of P-80 fighter planes in flight. (World War 2 period.)
General Electric company sharing its J-33 jet engine design with other manufacturers such as Allison engine manufacturer who also build them for Lockheed P-80 shooting star airplanes. Animated illustrations of the J-33 centrifigal compresser contrasted to the axial flow compressor of the J-35 engine. View of straight wing Republic F-84 thunderbolt powered by the J-35 engine. View of Douglas Skystreak airplane. View of Northrop Flying wing airplane powered by 8 J-35 engines. McDonnell Douglas FH-1 phantom jet airplane operating on an aircraft carrier. Classroom where General Electric personnel are being trained to service and support organizations using GE jet aircraft engines.
American revolutionary soldiers march in reenactment of post-revolutionary past. They are led by two drummers and a fife player. American soldiers charge from their trenches in France during World War I. A man removes an antique musket from a wall. Two men converse in a rural agricultural area, in America during World War 2. The men look up in the sky as some U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes fly overhead. An exploding bomb is artificially superimposed upon a typical residential street in an American neighborhood. The exploding bombs are next seen in Europe during World War II. Buildings are destroyed. Fires rage and heavy smoke fills the air. Views of destroyed cities.
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.
Tourists in an open car,on a bridge, pause to look at a river and waterfall. Motorists travel along a road through scenic mountainous area. Several tourists are seen walking to a scenic spot along the road, where a park bench can be seen at edge of road.
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