A training film which introduces U.S. Navy F8U-2N Crusader aircraft and summarizes differences between F8U-2N and other F8U series aircraft, United States. F8U-2N in flight. Pilots adjust knob at instrument panel of an aircraft. Shows three pneumatic pressure gauges under missile mount on right hand forward fuselage of F8U-2N parked at an airfield. Pilots makes a walk around inspection of aircraft. Pilot at ventral fins of an aircraft. Pair of air scoops on aircraft. Sidewinder missiles on side of aircraft. Animation shows additional fuel tank and function of forward transfer cell. Cockpit arrangement shows control panel of F8U-2N with various switches and knobs. Airman climbs to cockpit of F8U-2N. Pilot aboard F8U-2N. External power operation of plane as pilot adjusts switches on instrument panel. Animated chart details working of AC and DC generator. Indicators on instrument panel of F8U-2N parked at an airfield. F8U-2N taxis and takes off.
Homes constructed for Japanese workers in Japanese cities after World War II. Homes of barracks variety which are given to those workers who are employed at the Higashi Misome Coal Mine. A Japanese woman washes small pieces of clothes in a wooden bucket in front of her home. A housing plan that is employed by the Higahu-Misome Mining Company. It further illustrates the conditions in which those homes are kept. A view from a train as it passes through various towns and cities while en route to Kyoto. The type of buildings found in most cities of Japan which were untouched in the strategic air attack against Japan
A film titled 'What happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City '. Pedestrians walking on a thoroughfare. Horse drawn carriages on the street. A young man escorts a woman along the sidewalk and walks her over a sidewalk grating from which a gust of air blows her skirts up. She laughs and clutches her skirts.
United States President Harry Truman awards Collier Trophy for air safety to Aeronautics Engineer Lewis Rodert. Both men shake hands. Rodert is recognized for his work in developing a heat method for preventing the icing of aircraft (de-icing method).
United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. USS Wandank with a cable attached to stern and USS Sculpin helps to furnish air. Disturbance in surface of water as first pontoon is blown dry. Stern pontoons seen bobbing on surface. Men seen working on top of pontoons. Bow of Squalus seen. Bow turns over onside and sinks back in water. Animated drawing shows stern of Squalus being lifted from bottom, bow is lifted, stern drops down and sinks back to bottom.
A biplane aircraft is seen ready to take-off, with another smaller model aircraft strapped to its upper wing span. It includes a new safety device tested by fliers to prevent air crashes. View of the biplane aircraft in flight. The smaller model airplane is launched from the top of the airplane and begins a spinning free fall. A parachute deploys that holds the entire model aircraft and aids its slow descent toward the ground. Makers say the huge cabin parachute can carry ten passengers down comfortably.
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