United States Army Air Force aircraft taxi on a runway in France during World War II. A USAAF C-47 Skytrain taxis on a runway. The C-47 while taxiing raises dust. A parked C-47 taxis and insignia of the United States on it. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked on an air filed. A P-47 taxis forward for a take off. The aircraft taxis and raises dust. Dust in the background.
Forward air operations in France during World War II. Two Spitfire Mk IX aircraft, of 222 Squadron, RAF, with white stripe invasion markings on them, take off from dirt field, raising dust as they depart. Trucks drive over the field raising dust clouds. U.S. Army Air Force C -47 Skytrain takes off towing a United States Army Air Force Waco CG-4 glider. Wreckage of two Spitfires and a Tempest or Typhoon aircraft, in D-day paint, are seen on the field. An operator is shown, working in the mobile control vehicle.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. Two fliers on wing of a British Royal Air Force fighter aircraft Hawker Hurricane as they load ammunition belts into guns. A group of fliers seated in front of the British Headquarters building. A flier comes out of doorway. Fires gun in air. The group runs. A damaged hangar in the background. A wrecked German airplane at an airfield. Hurricane in the background with a spinning propeller. Hurricane with propeller spinning. A pilot in a cockpit. A rear of Hurricane and pilot gets into a cockpit of the aircraft. The Hurricane taxis and takes off. A view of Hurricane at the airfield as propellers rotate. The lined up Hurricane with propeller spinning. A Hurricane with a spinning propeller taxis and takes off. Hurricanes taxi and take off from the airfield.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. A Royal Air Force heavy bomber Consolidated B-24 Liberator in flight. Aerial view of Tunis city. Royal Air Force medium bomber B-25 Mitchell stationary at an airfield. Crew members move towards the bomber.
Film that illustrates the kind of aviation training and early career experiences of American Astronaut John Glenn. Narrator discusses this throughout, but there are no images of John Glenn, himself in the film, which begins showing a formation of North American T-28 training planes from the U.S. Navy flight school at Pensacola, Florida, flying over water. Closeup of one doing a roll. Glimpse of instructor discussing Navy Mark 8-A Weems navigational computer in a classroom.. Cadets at Corpus Christi, Texas, in Altitude Chamber experiencing the effects of high altitude flight and learning about their individual symptoms of hypoxia onset. A cadet in the cockpit of an airplane as instructor standing on its wing points out features of the aircraft controls. A cadet using a sextant to shoot sun lines in daylight. Cadets engaged in calisthenics, and playing volley ball on a court set up on a flight line. A line of Navy Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft, with folded wings are parked in the near background. Cadets in dress whites leave a chapel following a service. Graduation parade and exercises in which the cadets are awarded their Navy wings of gold. A formation of four Navy Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar aircraft in formation, viewed from above. Closeup of pilots in several parked Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, followed by Formation of several in the air ostensibly blasting enemy targets below, raising white smoke. A U.S. Navy Lockheed T-2V Seastar jet training aircraft performing a roll in flight at high altitude with condensation trails visible behind its wingtip tanks. Brief views of air combat during the korean War. Navy Vought F8U supersonic Crusader aircraft in flight. An X-15 aircraft being dropped from underneath a U.S. Air Force B-52 jet bomber. It rockets away rapidly from the Bomber.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr, the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. A U.S. Air Force Military Air Transport airplane lands at an airport. People gather at the airport to greet John Glenn after his journey. He comes out of the airplane. Glenn seated in a car with his wife and U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The car drives along. People gathered along the sides of the streets wave and cheer as the car moves past. Arrival of U.S. President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, where President Kennedy descends the steps of the Air Force One aicraft. U.S. President John F Kennedy presents Astronaut John Glenn with NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. Astronauts applaud. Several officials and dignitaries at the ceremony. Glenn arrives in Washington DC. Crowds gathered to greet Glenn, with some standing on bridges and overpasses in the rain to cheer him. Interior of the White House. Astronaut Alan Shepard, John Glenn and his wife at the White House with the President and first lady Jackie Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Glenn seated in a car. A crowd gathers on a street of Washington DC during a parade to honor John Glenn. They wave and greet him. Buildings along street sides. A ticker tape parade in New York. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol. The speaker of the house addresses the members of the Congress. He talks about the achievement of Glenn. Members of the Congress applaud and cheer. Glenn addresses the Congress. The members applaud. Cameramen record the event.
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