NASA Project Mercury Evaluation board representatives from each of the sections evaluate test reports on the Prospective Project Mercury astronaut subject's performance at conclusion of each week. In the background is a tally board of all astronaut test candidates which shows scores from individual sections. Members in the meeting include Dr David Trites; Captain George Roof, psychiatrist; Captain Ed Wise, Respiration section; Dr Doug Talbott; Captain Evan Lindberg, Acceleration; Captain Joseph Gold, Environment Section; Charlie Clouser, civilian from Anthropology and Captain Charles Wilson. Lt Colonel W R Turner monitors the meeting.
General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek arrive in a car. Colonel Bennett, Colonel Branch and Colonel Tex Hill receives the guests and greet them. General Kai-Shek talks to Chinese officers. They all move past the saluting Chinese airmen. Fighter planes in background. Madame Kai-Shek talks to Colonel Branch. General Kai-Shek walks through under the planes to inspect the bombers. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek get back in the car. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek inspect the maps on a table in the Wing's intelligence room. General Kai-Shek and Madame Kai-Shek view a chart as a soldier points to it on a wall. A man arrives in the room and shakes hands with the General. They all move. Chinese airmen salute as they pass by.
History of the SR-71 development from conferences, through assembly, to operational flights of the aircraft, United States. SR-71 in flight with gear lowered. SR-71 B lands. Crew leaves SR-71 B and welcomed by officers. Crew boards SR-71 in hangar and aircraft taxis out. Aircraft in flight. Crew leaves SR-71 and awarded MACH 3 pins and SR-7 models.
Airmen with their luggage boarding C-124A Globemaster II. Before repeating the event for the camera, they pose smiling. They board again, walking up the aircraft ramps beneath the open clam-shell doors.
Remains of B-17, tail number 42-37789, which crashed during a post -maintenance test flight on April 24, 1944, at Grafton Underwood Airfield in Northampshire, England. The Aircraft belonged to the 544 Bomb Squadron of the 384th Bomb Group and was flown by Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Nuttall, who survived the crash and went on to lead a number of bombing missions thereafter. The aircraft was destroyed by fire that ensued after the crash. Firefighting foam residue can be seen covering the wreckage. This scene was filmed on April 29, 1944, five days after the crash. (World War II period).
Lieutenant Donald Malmsten (by prop) and Lt. Jerome Jahnke (kneeling center) , of the U.S. 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group ((formerly Eagle Squadron number 71) talk with ground crewmen, beside Major Gerald Montgomery's P-51D named: "Sizzlin Liz." at Debden Airbase, England. Major Howard "Deacon" Hively briefing large group of ground crew members beside P-51. He dismisses them with good natured wave of his hand and they leave hurriedly.
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