Robert Golka and Project Tesla - his effort to create an energy source from atomic fusion, called ball lightning, at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Golka turns on a machine. Danger sign on a motor. Extensions in the hangar ceiling. A lit halogen lamp.
Robert Golka and Project Tesla - his effort to create an energy source called ball lightning, at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Golka works near Tesla coils inside a hangar. He operates and makes adjustments on several machines. Golka fails to create ball lightning despite having Tesla's notes from the Colorado Springs experiments. Lightning arcs from the ceiling to the floor.
Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hanger at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. A Tesla Coil is used to create extremely high voltage arcs. The lightning arcs from ceiling to floor of the hangar. The voltage arcs strike and pass through a model advanced development composite aircraft.
Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Researchers fix attachments onto a model advanced development composite aircraft for testing. They place the aircraft model on the test stand. The U.S. Air Force Flight Dybamics Laboratory Electro-Magnetic Group bus inside the hangar. Researchers climb into and out of the bus. A researcher sets up a camera near a halogen lamp.
U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla, inside a hangar at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Researchers at the controls inside a bus. A woman with a camera around her neck. They observe a monitor before them. A composite aircraft model used for ball lightning tests on the monitor. Robert Golka near a machine. He adjusts the controls. Machines and equipment inside a hangar. High voltage danger sign. A yellow wire runs across the floor. The aircraft model on a stand.
Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
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