Cold War Reconnaissance flight of a U.S. Air Force RF-4 Phantom II in Europe. RF-4 takes off from a U.S. Air Force base in Europe. Views of land, mountains, and water below. A Soviet Z-class or Zulu class submarine surfaced and cruising at sea. The RF-4 flies over. The RF-4 landing at base again. Crew on the ground rush to unload film canisters from beneath nose area of plane. Personnel rush with film canisters into a lab. Photo interpreters viewing developed film roll and scrutinizing film images along with maps.
Space Communications and the related problems and developments. Animation: Additional factors introduces into Space Communications by transmission and reception of data. Frequencies and bandwidths applicable to Space Communications. Factors to be weighed while considering bandwidth: Available power and transmission system required. Narrower bandwidths used to conserve power, they're also less affected by noise interference. Depicts consumption of power by television, spoken word and teletype bandwidths. Telemetry: low bandwidth and power consumption. Explains Telemetry. Theory of Modern Communication and Binary digits or BITS. Depicts information required from outer space like: radio activity level of the moon's surface, abundance of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, and variation in surface temperature of Mercury. Telemetry utilizes relatively small bandwidth and thus used as preferable mode of communication for research vehicles.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. Words, "Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory" on a trailer. An antenna near the sign. A U.S. National Forest Service sign for the Cibola National Forest. U.S. Air Force personnel climb into the Mobile Station and close the doors behind them.
Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. An interviewer gets information from the scientists. A team member talks about modern aircraft, new material and avionics system susceptible to lightning. He states that the composite materials used in new aircraft are stronger and don't conduct electricity like conventional metals. The team's research work involves protective measures and verification of the same. He discusses the effect of lightning on aircraft electronics, and the use of Wendover as the research facility due to its reproduction of long arcs. The aim is to study the effects of atmospheric electricity on new materials and electronics systems in modern aircraft. Robert Golka talks about a new company to study and create ball lightning, and apply it to nuclear fusion research.
After a speech by an admiral, Japanese newspapermen are given the news of the declaration of war against the United States on 8 December 1941. A Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific. Sailors on the deck of a carrier. A captain looks through binoculars. Sailors prepare the dive bombers on the ship deck. Japanese pilots during a final briefing. A Japanese sailor erases a board, while another stands before a writing on the ship. Bombers on the carrier deck. Japanese Sailors watch as pilots board their planes and take off. The bombers in flight with bombs attached onto the belly. Japanese bombers drop bombs on U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pearl Harbor Base under attack.
Charles A Lindbergh as an honored guest at the Aero Club of France. Lindbergh and U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T Herrick greeted by Raymond Orteig in Paris. New York City hotel owner Raymond Orteig offered the Orteig prize of $25000 for the first non-stop trans-atlantic flight. The three of them in a balcony. Lindbergh waves to the crowd below and waves the U.S. and French flags.
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