Research and Development at the Wright Air Development Center (WADC) of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The test of supersonic propeller. Two technicians take reading from instruments during test. Aerial side view of B-50 Stratofortress aircraft in flight. View of B-50 aircraft engine during flight. A technician records data while in flight. Technician analyzing sound levels of the aircraft.
Service Engineering second part of Wright Air Development Center (WADC) mission at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A pilot places screen over air intake of a jet engine in a testing laboratory. F-84 Thunderjet aircraft taxis and turns. A pilot in cockpit. Tests are conducted on the damage to a J-35 jet engine from ingesting one small metal bolt. Slow-motion images of engine destruction with smoke and fire caused by the bolt getting into the engine works. Technicians examine pieces of the destroyed engine. They determine the importance of air inlet screens that protect the engine on the ground, but retract for maximum power during flight. A technician fits air inlet screens onto the engine of an aircraft.
Test flight of F-86 Sabre at the Wright Air Development Center located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A book entitled 'Research and Development Information Report'. A sign reads 'Danger, Only Authorized Personnel Permitted on Firing Range'. A technician test guns. Guns while being tested. A wing of F-86 Sabre with tufts installed on it. A technicians climbs up a ladder, sits in a cockpit and points to the cameras installed under canopy of aircraft. The cameras will take pictures during tufts test while aircraft is in flight. Project engineer and test pilot in cockpit of an aircraft. A pilot in the cockpit. A pilot wears helmet. F-86 taxis and takes off. F-86 aircraft going into dive at 45,000 feet. Wing of F-86E with tufts installed on it. A research engineer looks at the film taken of tuft test.
Testing of 3-ton M1918 tanks built by Ford run an obstacle course lay out on an open field behind residential area. Military and civilian officials observe as tanks cross gullies and climb earth banks. One of the tanks overturns in gully and another one fails to scale a mound of mud. Military officials gather to observe the overturned tank. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Bingham canyon mine in Utah. A worker drills with a piston air drill. A crane moves drilled ore to a railroad car of 80 ton capacity. The rail cars are driven by oil-electric locomotive. The rail car moves in the mine. Blasting in mine results in smoke and dust. A train carries 45 rail cars to a 20 mile distant factory
Men move on a road near a copper mine community. For recreation, people in the town with men employed at the Copper Mine enjoy leisure activities provided by the mine company. People read at a table in a club. A woman sits at piano while others sit on sofa near her in a club. Men play billiards, ten pin bowling, basketball, football and children enjoy diving and swimming in an indoor swimming pool along with women and some men. In company bakery, a worker keeps a tray in oven. Another worker takes out a tray from the oven. Workers are engaged in baking work in kitchen. A jeep comes out of the company hospital. Doctors carry out a medical surgery operation in an operating theater. Nurses and doctors take care of patients in the hospital.
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