Testing aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. A United States Air Force C-119C aircraft being tested for short field landing capability on rough terrain at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. The C-119C makes a normal full flap landing and reverses its engines upon touchdown, which together with wheel braking causes the aircraft to stop rapidly. Dust blows in front of the aircraft from the reverse thrust. Several views of the landing test are seen.
Testing aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. Drogue chutes fail in landing tests of a U.S. Air Force C-47F at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. In the first scene, a C-47F, trailing a drogue chute, lands on a hard surface runway At the moment of impact as the parachute billows, the shroud line breaks. Parachute collapses and trails behind the aircraft going down the runway. In the second sequence, the C-47F lands on rough terrain, but the drogue chute fails and the aircraft stops using propeller reverse and brakes.
Captured Viet Cong (VC) film showing various views of VC base in jungles of Vietnam. Viet Cong can be seen writing letters, digging bunkers and tunnels. Inside a bunker they clean carbine and test captured field radio. Two VC relaxing in bunker and cleaning rifle. (Vietnam War period).
Views of USAF (United States Air Force) airplanes parked at the airstrip of Langley Air Force Base. Lt. Col. Robert Olds standing in front of a B-17 airplane. A ground crew man gets into a rubber lifeboat and moves oars back and forth. Ground crewman pushing landing gear wheel of a B-17. B-17 taxiing and taking off from Langley airstrip. Aerial view of Langley field, nearby buildings and waterway as aircraft ascend. View inside B-17 of pilot and co-pilot in cockpit of the B-17. Airplanes in flight, aerial views of formation of B-17 aircraft in flight.
Major General Frank Andrews pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on the coat of Colonel Robert Olds. Troops standing in attention position and a building seen in background at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
Five YG-1B early helicopters are pushed out of hangar by ground crewmen. Ground crewmen lock rotor blades into position for flight. Three YG-1B auto-gyros taking off from a grass field at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Views of five YG-1Bs in flight, then two auto-gyros land.
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