Army surplus goods being auctioned in California, United States. Army surplus goods worth 12 million dollars piled up at Sharpe General depot for an auction. Goods include a battered jeep as men work on it. Lights and lanterns for sale. Bidding takes place. Men seated in chairs as they bid for the goods.
Tourists visit Aurora, a Nevada ghost town 3 miles from the Californian border, during a tour in the High Sierra region between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in California, United States. Two men watch a car arriving at the ghost town. A car in front of the Aurora Café in the town’s main street. Car parked in front of the courthouse of Aurora, part of Esmeralda County, Nevada. “Esmeralda” is written in front of the courthouse. Weeds grow outside the abandoned courthouse.
Research and Development at the Wright Air Development Center (WADC) of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The test of supersonic propeller. Two technicians take reading from instruments during test. Aerial side view of B-50 Stratofortress aircraft in flight. View of B-50 aircraft engine during flight. A technician records data while in flight. Technician analyzing sound levels of the aircraft.
Service Engineering second part of Wright Air Development Center (WADC) mission at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A pilot places screen over air intake of a jet engine in a testing laboratory. F-84 Thunderjet aircraft taxis and turns. A pilot in cockpit. Tests are conducted on the damage to a J-35 jet engine from ingesting one small metal bolt. Slow-motion images of engine destruction with smoke and fire caused by the bolt getting into the engine works. Technicians examine pieces of the destroyed engine. They determine the importance of air inlet screens that protect the engine on the ground, but retract for maximum power during flight. A technician fits air inlet screens onto the engine of an aircraft.
African American life in Bowie, Maryland. Building behind the trees. African American women sit on bench and talk. White houses at a distance in the background. African American women walk in front of the house. Truck in front of a white house and women by the side. Clothes hang in the garden at the back of Maryland school building. African American women sit on bench and talk outside school building. African American woman and two men stand in front of building and talk.
U.S. Air Force staff car driving along a road at the Minuteman Missile complex of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, near Great Falls, Montana. In the back seat are Captain Kenneth Atkins, a combat crew commander and his deputy, Lieutenant Jim Highland. View of desolate landscape from the passing car. The car stops at a fenced area where guards confirm their identifications. Inside a building the men are issued .38 caliber revolvers and ammunition. An authentication code is given over the phone by the guard, who then promptly burns a stub of paper on which it is written. The combat crew enters the complex through an alarmed door and takes an elevator down to the lower level. View up the shaft of the elevator descending. They exit and stand as the silo blast door is opened from within, and then enter the vault-like control room. Colonel Rex Dowtin, Commander of the 341st Wing, listens as one of his combat crews gives him their certification briefing. Combat crew members Atkins and Highland are seen in their silo control capsule, where they look over the latest message traffic. Views of SAC (Strategic Air Command) message recording systems and internal capsule controls. A double padlocked red box containing secret missile launch codes. Pre-recorded voice reporting the status of all missiles under the crews control. Sound of voice reporting on various selected channels. Views outside the silo, with some snow on the ground. View of a missile nose. Panning views of the capsule, showing the crew member bunks, among other things.
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