Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Test pilot at pressure chamber in Aero Med lab uses anti G suit, crash helmet with visor and oxygen mask. A man operates a wind tunnel. A split screen shows altitude reading of 4000 feet, pilot and the pressure door. Pilot's reaction as paper cover over pressure chamber door is burst. Meter shows an increase in altitude from 4000 to 6000 feet.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. During a landing gear test pressure exerted on the wheel-wheel bearing results in a fire.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Pilot seat ejection test conducted at a lab building. A test pilot in a seat as his hand throws a switch and starts an operation of pilot seat mechanism. Test of pilot seat ejection mechanism.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Electric engine generator used for firing the engines of the B-47 as officer starts its operation. A small cylinder holding hydraulic fluid hit by unseen object, a flame erupts and it burns up immediately. A B-47 aircraft lands at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. A parachute brakes trail behind as the aircraft lands. Boeing aircraft manufacturing plant with the nose section of B-47 aircraft protrudes in the scene, large shaping machine in the foreground. Operator shapes section of an aircraft fuselage at production factory. A typist at desk. A young woman operates a mimeograph machine. Civilian men office workers wearing suits sit at desks and confer on drawings and plans for aircraft. A man gets into a U.S. mail carrier cab. A young woman operates an adding machine and makes entries into a ledger. A steno and a woman Air Force officer file cabinets. A mechanic works on an electrical generator section of wind tunnel. A worker takes out books at a library, a female worker cuts out sections of Photostats from large roll. A document marked secret. Women Air Force officers assemble sections of paper work on aircraft. File clerk files up paper work on project. Air Force Officer and a civilian contractor discuss plans.
Non rigid blimp, L-3, a Goodyear Company manufactured patrol airship for the United States Navy is seen as it takes off from Wingfoot Lake docks in Ohio. Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman of the Board at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is seen speaking at a microphone and introducing E. J. Thomas, President of Goodyear, addressing workers to ask for their fullest loyalty.
Industrial jobs coming available in various parts of the United States during the Great Depression. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Workers at the Sun Oil Company. Long line of men showing up for work. Men hand-digging trenches for oil and gas pipelines, giving work to hundreds of men, instead of to twelve men with machines. Detroit, Michigan: Workers called back to work at the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). Cue of workers passing through the entrance door with sign overhead "Let's Get it done! It can be done!" and then punching time cards as hey head back to work. Scenes of manufacturing and assembly work by women workers and male workers inside the rubber company, and a rubber tire being made in the factory. Joliet, Illinois: Lines of workers entering the Mayflower Wallpaper Mill. Men rolling large rolls of the paper through the mill. Views of wallpaper manufacturing. Dayton, Ohio: Views of workers entering the National Cash Register Company factory. Workers assembling and testing cash registers before they are placed on conveyor belts.
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