Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
U.S. Navy submarine USS Sennet (SS-408) gets stuck in an ice pack in the Ross Sea during Operation High Jump. United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Northwind comes up alongside USS Sennet. Men aboard USCGC Northwind and USS Sennet.
United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC ) Northwind pulls the U.S. Navy submarine USS Sennet (SS-408) from an ice pack in the Ross Sea during Operation High Jump. USCGC Northwind tows USS Sennet. A meteorologist holds a helium-filled weather balloon; another man stands near by holding a radiosonde. USCGC Northwind sails past USS Yancey (AKA-93).
United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Northwind pulls USS Sennet in the Ross Sea during Operation High Jump. USCGC Northwind tows the U.S. Navy submarine USS Sennet (SS-408). The pontoon of a SOC Seagull seaplane in the foreground. Penguins walk about on snow atop the ice.
Flight tests of Ercoupe airplane without and with an auxiliary jet propulsion at March Field in California. Check posts made of aluminium sheets at an airfield. A sign on a check post: 'Explosives'. Solid propellant sections leave thrust to be used in Ercoupe airplane flight tests at the airfield.
Flight tests of Ercoupe airplane using auxiliary jet propulsion at March Field in California. The Ercoupe airplane taxis and takes off without jet propulsion. It is piloted by Captain Homer A. Boushey Jr. The airplane taxis and takes off with the jet propulsion.
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