U.S. aircrafts lands after the Vietnam Carrier Air Strike in South China Sea on the deck of USS Hancock CV-19, Pacific Ocean. U.S. A-4E Skyhawk makes arrested landing. U.S. F-8D Crusader makes arrested landing. Man runs out and hangs on the wing.
463rd Airlift Operations in support of humanitarian and combat operations in South East Asia. Pilot, flight engineer , navigator and copilot in cockpit of C-130 Hercules. The aircraft in flight. Co-pilot looks at map seated inside in aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
A truck convoy of U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops waiting to move out of base camp. Soldiers rush to 105mm Howitzer and prepare to fire. Soldiers load, aim and fire the Howizer. Soldiers read letters and newspapers. (Vietnam War period).
Aerospace Research Pilot School in United Sates. Brigadier General James Stewart with a researcher at a laboratory. A microscope on table. General Stewart looks through microscope. He talks to the researcher and looks again in microscope. They continue conversing and Stewart looks into the microscope several times. Closeup of Stewart looking into the microscope.
Start of first high-powered flight mission of X-15. Pilot Scott Crossfield mounts steps aside B-52 and enters cockpit of X-15 fastened under its wing. Others help him to strap in and fasten his helmet.
Photograpy from an airborne chase plane, on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 rocket plane. A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane seen flying in the contrails of the NASA B-52 mothership (NB-52A,52-003) flown by pilots Bock and Allovie, An F-100D fighter flies slightly ahead of the B-52. The X-15, 56-6671, with Scott Crossfield, in the cockpit, is cradled under the B-52's right wing. View from the photo chase plane, as it pulls closer to the B-52. The X-15 and leading F-100 chase plane are clearly visible. The camera plane has dropped back and the X-15 releases, from the B-52 mothership, as its rocket engines simultaneously ignite. It drops and accelerates below and in front of the B-52. It stays below momentarily, without leaving a contrail. Then it accelerates and climbs rapidly out of sight. Sunlight glares as two chase planes are seen.
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