Sign reads "Welcome to GAFB, elevation 504 feet" on the Base Operations Building at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. View of exterior or Operations Building. View of a radar screen is shown as narrator discusses expansion of radar network for gathering data. Improved radars are shown being used for routine observing and reporting. A Vertical Viewing Radar unit is shown at the air base. An Air Force weather technician records readings.
NASA Astronauts undergo survival training class at Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF seated on a table. Captain Robert W Weaver, Stead Air Force Base Project Officer and OIC survival School trainer briefs the astronauts in a class room. Captain Kieth D Young, Academic Instructor briefs the astronauts. Colonel Richard, Deputy Base Commander of Stead AFB, Sargent Harrington , NASA Project Officers, Colonel Kieth Lindell, Doctor Donald Stulken and Lt Colonel W K Douglas.
Backyard barbecue picnic at a private home near Seymour Johnson Air Force base. U.S. Air Force pilots and their wives at a barbecue and cookout in the backyard of a house in Goldsboro, North Carolina. People in typical 1960s fashions sitting on lawn chairs, drinks in hand, and talking. A man cooks on a grill.
Film begins showing a U.S. Air Force Convair B-58 Delta wing Hustler bomber taking off. Views of the aircraft maneuvering in flight. An unmanned Snark turbojet missile is seen launching from an inclined position, and then discharging a bomb in flight. An Atlas missile on a launching pad. Closeup shows the Strategic Air Command Logo on its side. An Atlas missile launching. A Thor intermediate range ballistic missile being launched. A Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile launching in a cloud of smoke. Scene shifts to Airmen of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command performing duties around a parked B-52 bomber. Three crew members climb aboard a B-52 bomber.
Opens shows a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber taxiing on an airfield. Views from the side and from above the taxiing aircraft. AGM-28 Hound Dog missiles seen under the wings. View of underside of wings. A gloved hand raises guards on switches and they are activated. From inside an aircraft, two Hound Dog missiles are seen as they drop from it. Scene shifts to a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft taking off. Views of a B-52 bomber hooking up to refuel from a KC-135 tanker aircraft. Refueling boom is seen slowly extending to connect with the refueling input of the B-52. View of the boom operator lying down in the tail of the KC-135 tanker, maneuvering the boom. View, from his perspective, of the B-52 and refueling boom as they connect and begin refueling. Aerial views of the the two aircraft hooked together and then disconnecting after refueling is complete. Animated world globe is shown depicting Soviet threat. An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen launching. Views of B-52 bombers in flight.
United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 aircraft are assigned to Strategic Air Command's 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing for filter duct calibration flight testing. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. A ladder near the aircraft. Crewmen help a pilot with a portable oxygen equipment as he climbs into the cockpit. The aircraft is pushed out of the hangar by a truck. 'US Air Force' and '66714' painted on the aircraft. An Auxiliary Power Unit ( APU ) truck backs up to the aircraft. Crewmen unroll and hook up a flexible hose to the aircraft. The pilot in the cockpit. A red light blinks on and off. A crewman rewinds the hose. Insignia '4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing' and '66714' on the tail. Rear wheels and outrigger gear under the right wing. The crew chief on a ladder beside the aircraft. He gets down. The right wing tip, skid and rear landing gear. The crew chief closes the canopy and removes the ladder. The aircraft taxis from the ramp onto a runway. A crewman removes the safety pin from the outrigger gear. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
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