A report on United States Air Force C-123B assault transport aircraft performance in field assault condition and loading tests at various air bases in the United States. An airman sets up equipment for test at Eglin AFB in Florida. The airman standing beside a USAF truck notes down on a paper. The airman walks along a rugged field where C-123B successfully landed. Members of the crew board a C-123B. The aircraft takes off from very rough and sandy ground. A U.S. Air Force cameraman records as the aircraft takes off. The airman talks over a radio. The C-123B lands over a 50 feet obstacle. It lands successfully in an excessive nose-down altitude. A load test on a C-123B at Pope AFB in North Carolina. The cargo door of the C-123B opens up. A jeep rolls out along the ramp of the C-123B. Jeeps are driven out of the aircraft. A field ambulance being driven into the C-123B. A truck mounted crane shovel loader being loaded on the C-123B.
Testing of aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. An XC-123 performs a maximum performance landing on rough terrain at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. The aircraft makes normal approach, reverses propellers on touchdown, and applies full braking. Dust blows in front of the aircraft from the prop reversals.
Tests of aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission, conducted at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. A C-47F aircraft performs maximum perfornance landing employing a drogue chute to aid in stopping. Several views of the C-47F landing in rough terrain, trailing drogue parachute behind. As the plane lands, the parachute opens up and plane comes to an abrupt halt using reversed propellers and brakes as well.
Following his return to Patrick Air Force Base, from Grand Turk Island, at the conclusion of the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, a motorcade honoring Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his wife, Florence, proceeds from Patrick Air Force Base to Cape Canaveral in Florida. The car carrying Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter and his wife is surrounded by accompanying motorcycle policemen. Crowds line the streets to watch the motorcade. People take photographs of the Carpenters and he waves to them.
Technician removes recorder unit from access panel of U-2 nose section. Airplane is parked in hangar at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. Technician places recorder unit in U-2 nose section, then closes the access panel. Airman draws tire from supply unit and keeps it in locker room.
Views of technicians checking tape on recorder from back. Airmen in a truck, truck moving towards airplane. Airmen load equipment from truck into the plane. Outstanding crew chief inspects operations. T-39 taxiing to runway then takes off from McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida.
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