A safety seat for pilots tested at Wright air field in Dayton, Ohio. Men strap a dummy to a seat and it is hoisted on board a plane with a crane. Men pull a string and the dummy is tossed up in the air to safety. Dummy falls into a net erected nearby.
Ford Motor Company employees paint and finish United States Army Brodie-patterned M1917 helmets at a factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War I. Factory workers working in assembly line. Worker hammers a bolt in the center of the helmet. A worker attaches chin strap into the helmet. A machine attaches a bolt into the chin strap. Helmets are prepared for the paint tank. Workers dip helmets into paint tanks. Men wipe off helmets to remove a coat of tallow applied to prevent rusting. Helmets placed on rack, dipped in paint tank, and hung to dry on stands. Helmets are treated with sawdust applied with air pressure (“sawdusting”). Workers are seen wearing goggles as they apply sawdust in helmets. After applying sawdust, racks of helmets are placed in bake oven. The workers close the bake oven door. Workers sort and stack new helmets. Military and quality control personnel inspect helmets carefully. Finished U.S. Army helmets put into wooden crate and shipment lid placed onto it. Helmets are packed with air pressure. Crates stenciled, seals soldered, and crates fastened with wires. A man places a receipt on top of helmets before another man seals the crate. Wooden crates piled up for shipment. [Note: This was filmed at the Ford Motor Company assembly plant on Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia. Helmet shells were manufactured by other firms and sent vie rail to the Ford plant where they were painted and finished. This video depicts that finishing process.]
Project Storm fury at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Three RA-3B planes lined up at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station. A CPO (Chief Petty Officer) removes silver iodide cartridges from a wooden box and places them in small racks. CPO loads iodide cartridges into small bomb racks as a civilian engineer talks to him. Bomb bay of the plane open. Engineer hands cartridges to the CPO as he loads them into the bomb rack. Men hand over racks of cartridges to a man inside the bomb bay in the plane. Nose of RA-3B plane with overcast sky in the background.
Project Storm fury at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Crew members stand near the tail section of EC-121 plane at Roosevelt Roads Naval air station with another EC-121 plane in the background. A ladder leads up to the hatch of EC-121 aircraft. Chief Petty Officer and a civilian engineer opens silver iodide cases next to a RA-3B plane on the line with overcast sky in the background. Cartridges placed in small bomb racks. Men hand over the cartridges to someone in the bomb bay. CPO places a wooden box of silver iodide canisters. He opens the lid and removes canisters. Iodide racks placed in bomb bay. Men use speed wrench to secure the racks on bomb bay. Men off load silver iodide cases from a yellow pick up truck.
D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Airborne paratrooper soldiers march on air field in groups. Men relax beneath aircraft. Men inspect the parapaks. Men apply camouflage make up on each others faces. A man reads out a message from Supreme Commander. Equipment loaded, man eats pineapple and other checks sub machine guns. Indian paratroopers in full battledress and equipment. Men inspected by pilot and crew chief and then by a jump master. Paratroopers board an aircraft. One British paratrooper with British type ammunition leg pack assisted by another paratrooper into the aircraft. Men march across air field. C-47 planes take off for invasion.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Project information report on aircraft jettisonable wheel. United States Air Force F-84 aircraft takes off with dual type landing gear. Aircraft drops the outside wheel from each gear after take off.
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