A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.
Manufacture and testing of a new robot bomb in the United States: A Republic Aviation and Ford Motor Company collaboration known as the JB-2 Loon, modeled after the German V-1 flying bomb. Interior of a war production factory. Worker welding part of bomb frame. Workers wheeling completed bomb fuselages on wheeled platforms in the plant. Closeup of an African American man wheeling a bomb. Henry Ford II and Ray Rausch, of Ford Motor Company, who oversaw the production of the pulsejet engines for the JB-2 bomb. Men working for the construction of the robot bomb. Closeup view of engine being fired on a test stand. Men and women war production workers at the Willys-Overland production plant in Toledo, Ohio are seen working on the interior components of the flying bomb, then closing the completed fuselages, and attaching the wings to the flying bomb. Engineering officers from the Army Air Forces Air Technical Command inspect a completed JB-2 flying bomb. View of a test launch o the bomb from a sandy beach area. The bomb engine fires and the bomb launches out over ocean waters, dropping its auxiliary launching apparatus beneath it, close to shore.
A United States Air Force Weather Service meteorologist points at a large synoptic chart and briefs about the weather, while being recorded and broadcast via television. USAF operators in a control tower as an airplane lands on a runway. To provide information to the pilots observation stations of the Air Weather Service are located at the end of the runways. A man enters an observation station. He works on equipment. Voice messages using pre recorded words translate machine weather data into understandable information for pilots.
A documentary on a tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas. Clouds in the sky. Warm air from the south overruns the cold air from the north. Rain falling. Houses in the area. A tornado in the area. A black cloud rising up. Aerial view of rubbled area.
The Air Force Association (AFA) honors outstanding airmen in Louisiana. Officials seated at a desk. Several dignitaries, officials and celebrities gather for the ceremony. United States Air Force General Nathan Twining, USAF General George C. Kenney, Gill Robb Wilson, USAF Lt. Colonel Frank Everest and other officers present at the ceremony. Officers shaking hands. Other officers discussing.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Miners working inside the mine. They load coal in cars. An explosion occurs. The miners run holding their lunch pails. Houses along the sides of a street. Two women standing outside a house. The miners in the mine trying to get out. Lucky Burns, a miner, warns the other miners that they should not try to go out as the entry is full of afterdamp. He says that the air is good at the place where they are standing and thus they should remain at that place only. He instructs the miners to open a door so as to short-circuit the afterdamp, when the air current starts through the mine. Th miners work as per the instructions to save their lives.
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