U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. An SAC guard stands by a closed door to the conference room at Offutt Air Force Base. Various plates at the table lying next to Guard Rail folder. Name plates bearing signs like 'Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of U.S. Air Force, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant U.S. Marine Corps, The Director Joint Strategic Target Planning, Chief of Staff U.S. Army'. A sign on a closed door reads 'Briefing in session' and a guard stands with a pearl handled pistol.
A speech by U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. Vice President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon arrive at a speaker stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California. They are escorted by other dignitaries. A flag of United States. People seated for the speech. Dignitaries on the stage. Vice President Nixon climbs up the steps of the stage and shakes hands with the dignitaries. Men take pictures. People seated on chairs at the base. Mr. Nixon; Mr. Kindelberger, President of North America; Mr. Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development make speechs. The dignitaries stand and applaud. X-15 is towed by a tug and is rolled out of a hangar. Insignia of United States. Dignitaries on either side of the X-15.
United States aircraft lands aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Langley off the coast of California, United States. A signal man on the deck of United States aircraft carrier Langley waves signal flags as an aircraft comes in for landing on May 14, 1924. Aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Commander Mason lands on the deck and taxis along. Men in the foreground as the plane taxis. Men rush towards the plane.
U.S. Army Air Corps crewmen at Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Mount Clemens in Michigan, United States. U.S. Army Air Corps crewmen, wearing heavy flight clothing stand near line of U.S. Army Air Corps Martin B-10 bombers parked on a flight line. Two ground crewmen warming engines of A-12A with oil stove. Two pilots putting moccasins on a collie dog. A pilot donning heavy flight clothing. Propeller turning over. Six A-12As in flight in formation. A pilot in the cockpit. A B-10 in flight. The B-10 in flight and a tail of second B-10 in the foreground. The pilot in the cockpit. Two B-10s in flight. A B-10 in flight.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police at U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Fort Gordon, Georgia, United States. A sign: 'U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Commanding Officer , Document and Fingerprint Section, Administrative and Firearm section'. SP-6 Holford, at his desk, examines a pistol. He shows how each weapon barrel creates distinct markings on bullets. Chief Warrant Officer-4, R.F. Roscoe at his desk. He moves to the laboratory, where he applies flame to a weapon, bringing out fingerprints on it. Laboratory personnel demonstrate use of other devices, including special photographic equipment, used to link weapons to crimes.
Official trial of the Wright airplane at Fort Myer in Virginia, United States demonstrating compliance with specifications in the presence of the Aeronautical Board, U.S. Signal Corps. The storage building for Wright airplane at Fort Myer. U.S. President William Taft looks through doors which are surrounded by U.S. Naval and Army officers and civilians. President Taft in the crowd. Army personnel removing the doors from the building. Men remove the airplane from the hangar. They move the airplane across to the launching site near the headquarters building at Fort Myer.
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