Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Researchers fix attachments onto a model advanced development composite aircraft for testing. They place the aircraft model on the test stand. The U.S. Air Force Flight Dybamics Laboratory Electro-Magnetic Group bus inside the hangar. Researchers climb into and out of the bus. A researcher sets up a camera near a halogen lamp.
U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Researchers at the controls inside a bus. A woman with a camera around her neck. They observe a monitor before them. A composite aircraft model used for ball lightning tests on the monitor. Robert Golka near a machine. He adjusts the controls. Machines and equipment inside a hangar. High voltage danger sign. A yellow wire runs across the floor. The aircraft model on a stand.
Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
A new (unknown brand) 1941 car is displayed driving toward the camera in a park-like setting. It has a sloping hood and two large sized kidney shaped grills. it displays a Michigan manufacturer license plate number M 10 26. Extreme front closeup of the car's hood. Later, the car drives with its right side to the camera. It Appears to have a one-piece windshield and solid steel wheels. The rear of the vehicle is rounded. It also passes with its left side toward the camera. The car parked on a lawn, its white overall color silhouetted against the dark foliage background.
Ford Model TT Express Truck in front of a business establishment. A man unloads something and delivers it. The truck drives away along a country road. The truck stops in front of another business establishment and the driver delivers something. A gasoline pump stands at side of road. Scene changes to Detroit, Michigan, where passengers, in a Ford Model T Touring car, stop at an intersection. Road sign identifies Seven Mile Road and points to Grand River Avenue. After some discussion, the driver turns left and continues on his way.
Yosemite National Park in California. Several views of valley and a river below. Men seated near frame buildings near the edge of a valley. A high waterfall in the background. Rock formation ("El Capitan"). Views of valley and a waterfall. Views of forest, mountains and waterfall.
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