RB-45 Tornado at Yokota Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan. Flight line crew refueling RB-45. Gasoline trucks are seen as they leave. Flight-chief inspects RB-45 then goes inside the nose section of the air-plane. Flight-chief standing on ladder just outside the doorway of RB-45 fuselage, checking paper work.
USAF Protective Equipment Specialist and pilot come out of a building at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Sign outside the building reads: "Category 2 Restricted Area." Both men then leave in a USAF (United States Air Force) Divco truck. U-2 being serviced on flight line. Flight surgeon giving pilot preflight physical. Airman checking helmet and MC-3A partial pressure suit. Pilot climbing into the cockpit of the airplane. Crew Chiefs briefing Pilot on Form 781 Aircraft write-ups.
A USAF (United States Air Force) pilot inside the cockpit of a U-2 Aircraft parked at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. A technician checking pressure suit and hooking up oxygen bottle. Pilot checks some documents then strapped into U-2 cockpit.
A USAF (United States Air Force) pilot inside the cockpit of a U-2 Aircraft parked at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Technicians doing pre-flight inspections. U-2 taxies, takes off and gains high altitude. An official car departs from the runway. C-123 Provider, an American military transport aircraft parked near the hangar building.
comparative evaluation of four USAF planes: C-119C, XC-123, SA-16 and C-47F for the Strategic Air Command, Escape and Evasion mission. Unassisted take-offs of the planes form Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida is shown. SA-16 taking off from hard surface runway, followed by C-119C, C-47F and XC-123.
Comparative testing for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. RATO (rocket assisted take-off) from paved surface at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. C-119C RATO on hard paved runway followed by C-47F, XC-123 and SA-16 at Eglin AFB.
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