Ground and air search operations for missing crewmen of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 aircraft of 99th Bomb Wing. The plane crashed against the side of Elephant Mountain, Maine. Men wearing snow shoes walk to B-52 wreckage. Investigation team examines the scattered wreckage. CH-3 plane in flight above search area. CH-3 circles around the woods. Military men and operator boarding Bombardier Ski-Doo snow sleds. Personnel wearing snowshoes use radio equipment.
USS Bennington (CVS-20) underway at sea near California's San Clemente Island in the United States. U.S. Navy Destroyer ships underway. Bow of USS Bennington. Two destroyer ships underway in column. Third destroyer ship in the background. P3V aircraft drops depth charge weapon. Depth charge explodes in water. UH-2B helicopter flies past USS Bennington. Rockets fired by aircrafts hit water.
Operations aboard U.S. Navy's USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Vietnam. A-4C aircraft moves onto catapult. Men on deck. Plane ready for launch. Aircraft in flight. A-4C aircraft launched from Number two catapult. Island in the far background. F-4B aircraft launched from angled deck. Catapult console operator with raised hands. He lowers his hands and presses a button. A-4C launched. RA-5C aircraft moves on catapult. Catapult crew under aircraft. Men hook up and check bridle. Men leave the area. RA-5C aircraft being launched from number one catapult. Catapult console operator on deck. F-4B aircraft ready for launch. C-2A aircraft comes in for recovery. Men wearing yellow shirt in the foreground. Plane rolls out with area. C-2A taxis toward in front of island. A-6A aircraft towed over deck by tractor. F-4B parked at deck edge between two other F-4B aircraft.
Early attempts of aviation. Views of a man using bicycle-type pedals to power an airplane. View of the machine atop a launching ramp. Two men assist as the operator pedals and the machine moves down the ramp. The would-be airplane simply falls off the end of the ramp onto the ground. The attempt is repeated with the same results.
Scenes of vintage, historic, early aviation flight attempts: Men at controls of several unsuccessful ornithopter aircraft, intended to fly by flapping wings. One man rides a bicycle equipped with wings that he flaps using sticks by his handle bars. Another sits in a tub-like machine with tricycle wheels, as it "flaps" its wings. In a third scene, men assist as operator moves very large wings on a machine. Although the wings move, the machine doesn't. This large machine might be Gustav Lilienthal's ornithopter. It had a 3 horse-power motor. Location might be Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, around 1927
Lieutenant Charles Benter directs the U.S. Navy Band. Early models of aircraft in flight. USS Langley (AV-3) in San Diego Bay, California. Men aboard USS Langley take down mast as they prepare flight deck for flight activity. USS Langley underway. Stacks of the USS Langley lowered to horizontal. Aircraft on flight deck of USS Langley. Aircraft takes off from flight deck. Aircraft lands aboard USS Langley. OL-8 lands on USS Langley. DH-4 biplane is catapulted. Aircraft catapulted from the ship. OL-8 lands in water. DH-4 lands in water. Pilots taken from plane and hoisted aboard the USS West Virginia. Plane taken aboard the ship.
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