German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard arrives in Texas. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson plays host to the press as they wait for the arrival of German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. The Presidents rides a Tennessee Walking Horse. Soldiers at an airport. Johnson at the airport shakes hands with civilians. The German Chancellor arrives and is received by the President. A military band plays music. The Chancellor is greeted by a large crowd. Johnson and Erhard on a stage. A man plays a piano. They listen to the music.
A B-52, modified as a mother ship, is seen in flight, with an X-24 lifting body aircraft suspended beneath it. (A slot was cut in the right wing which was fitted with a special pylon for carrying research aircraft.) No significant movements are seen, as the B-52 cruises smoothly at altitude for much of the beginning of the film. Commencing at TC: 01:26, Rear paddle-style flight controls are moved and and adjusted on the X-24. At TC: 04:53, the X-24 emits smoke and again, at TC: 05:27. At TC :05:36, the engine of the X-24 is running and the lifting body aircraft drops vertically away from the B-52, which then continues its cruise at altitude. (Note: the film is reversed so the right wing appears as the left one.)
A B-52 Stratofortress and an X-24A aircraft in flight. The Stratofortress and another aircraft in flight after taking off from Edwards AFB, California. The X-24A is released from the wing of the B-52. The X-24A aircraft in flight. It approaches Edwards AFB runway.
A showing of floral headpieces in California. A man walks with a floral headpiece along a sidewalk. A signboard reads 'Children's Hospital'. Women display different styles of floral head pieces in a show which is organized to aid the children's hospital.
Aviator Howard Hughes's H-4 Hercules amphibious plane is transported from Culver City to Long Beach. The H-4 plane is taken out from Culver City hangar in parts. A crowd milling around in front of the hangar. Huge wings of the plane moved under wires on a road. A trailer truck hauls the wing of the plane on the road. The parts of the plane are transported to Long Beach.
A flight of Hughes XF-11 aircraft over California. The aircraft being pulled by a tug, on which a number of airport workers are riding. The aircraft in level flight, clean, with gear and flaps up. U.S. Air Force insignia painted on fuselage. Pilot visible in forward tandem seat of bubble cockpit. Several views of XF-11 aircraft in flight with landing gear extended. several views of the XF-11 in level flight with landing gear retracted and then of the aircraft in process of lowering landing gear, main gear first, followed by nose gear.
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