Views of Coast Redwood trees in California. Man standing near the trunk base of tree. A car moves on a road passing through the trunk base of a tree.
Air Force Test pilot, Major R.L. Johnson, boards North American F-86A armaments test Sabrejet aircraft number FU-611 at Muroc Air Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). Ground crew assists the pilot with chute. Pilot puts on the helmet and oxygen mask. Aircraft taxis. Aircraft in level flight -- extends and retracts speed brakes. Plane rolls to its right and dives. Men at monitoring post on the ground. Aircraft performs several low level high speed passes.Plane lands, and Major Johnson hops out of cockpit all the way to ground where he is congratulated by another Air Force major and ground crew personnel. He puts cigarette in his mouth and feels in his flight suit for a lighter. Major Johnson set an official record of 670.981 mph by flying four times over a 1.86-mile course at altitudes below 150 feet.
Visitors on the grounds of the Paris Exposition of 1900, walk under and around the base of the Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Av. Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France). Some women carry parasols. Men and women are fashionably dressed. View of Eiffel Tower from base up to top and down again. Buildings of the Exposition can be seen through the arch of the Tower.
1352nd Photo Squadron film titled 'Tactical hospitals prove mobility'. Base Operations at Ashiya Air Base in Japan. Tactical hospital set up after moving 600 miles by air. C-130 Hercules aircraft taxiing on runway. C-130 Hercules unloaded. Hospital tanks erected. Men set at work in the field hospital. Doctors and technicians working in tent hospital. Patients lie on hospital beds. Patients are examined. Doctors and nurses during a surgery operation.
Speed runs by 'Budweiser' SOS (Speed Of Sound) rocket powered car. The car is driven by Mr. Stan Barrett at U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base. Speed on this run is 246 miles per hour, and event is recorded on camera number 747, The vehicle image and background objects are reflected in the road bed. Hangars, airplanes and other aspects of the Air Base are seen behind the rocket car as it passes. Drag chute deploys, but only lines from it are seen behind the vehicle, after the run.
United States Boeing B-52 Stratofortress takes off from Edwards Air Force Base. The B-52 carries X-15 rocket-powered aircraft. The X-15 rocket-powered aircraft releases. X-15 aircraft in flight reaching 2,905 MPH. The X-15 landing on the dried lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base. Pilot, Major Bob White, seen climbing out of the cockpit of the X-15, and talking to NASA officials.
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