Four B-50 Superfortress, USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers, escorted by four straight wing F-84 thunderjets, flying immediately overhead. The B-50s belong to the 43rd Bomb Wing and display "circle K" tail codes. F-84s peel off to left and leave the formation. Desert terrain and mountains in background (probably in vicinity of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona).
View of tail section and right wing from backside of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Another view of tail section, left engine and left wing of Convair B-36. Several other B-36 air planes and hangar building in background. View of nose section of a B-36 . One crew man walking into bomb-bay of the plane and the other walking across top left wing of B-36.
Four B-50 Superfortress bombers, from the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 43rd Bomb Wing, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, flying in precise formation. They display Circle K tail letter code.
Space capsule from Discoverer XIV falling with a parachute. A USAF(United States Air Force) C-119 snags the canopy using a hook that was trailing the aircraft. C-119 brings the space capsule after catching it in mid air. Capsule removed from plane after landing. Crew being congratulated and an official addressing them at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
Several C-119J aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) take off in succession from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, on missions to develop and test capability to snag space capsules parachuting to earth from satellites in orbit. (Note: The mission of the 6593rd Test Squadron was to recover film capsules returning to earth from orbiting Corona photoreconnaissance satellites, during the 1960s. Their JC-119s had "beavertail" doors that could be opened in flight [unlike clamshell doors that had to be left behind for open-door operations in other C-119s]. All American Engineering Company installed the special recovery equipment in the squadron's aircraft. The 6593rd Squadron accomplished the first successful mid-air recovery of an object from an orbiting satellite, on 19 August 1960, when they captured a film capsule released in the Corona Discoverer 14 Satellite mission.)
C-119J of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) in flight for practice capsule recovery as part of the Discoverer program, near Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. C-119J in flight with pick-up gear lowered. Views of trapeze and aircraft snaring the practice space capsule. Military personnel working with winch equipment inside the C-119.
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