United States Army instructors explains certain components lying below the tail of helicopter Cobra to American pilot students. Another officer takes over from the instructor and climbs up a ladder to explain the details about the tail of AH-1G better known as Cobra. (Vietnam War period).
An aircraft flies over the Vung Tau air base in Vietnam. It flies over houses in the town. Smoke emerges from a hill. Before landing it flies over helicopters and an air craft at the air base. It lands and moves over the runway.
HH-3E Jolly Green Helicopter in flight around Da Nang, Vietnam. Two A-1H Skyraider aircraft in flight with thick green forests on ground. Aircraft in flight.
HH-3E Jolly Green Helicopter in flight refueling by HC-130 P at Da Nang, Vietnam. HH-3E Jolly Green Helicopter and HC-130 P aircraft in flight. HC-130 P aircraft with its trailing drogues. HH-3E Jolly Green Helicopter attaches its pointed tube to the trailing drogues of HC-130 P aircraft. Pilot seated in cockpit operates controls.
(Clip opens with a brief view of a "color girl" or "china girl" for color television calibration.) Military and commercial aircraft land and take off from Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. An F-4E Phantom takes off from the runway. A Volpar Beechcraft Model 18 takes off. A C-130A Hercules and an O-2A Skymaster land and taxi on the runway. OV-10A Bronco, T-39A Sabreliner and O-1E Bird Dog take off from the Da Nang Air Base runway. C-123K Provider taxis on landing.
Military and commercial aircraft operating at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Four McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II's taxi towards the runway and take off in succession. American World Airways Boeing 707, O-2A Skymaster, and C-123 Provider take off from the runway. TA-4F takes off .