Consequences of the 1960 U-2 reconnaissance aircraft incident. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the Soviet Presidium in Moscow, Soviet Union. Exterior of the U.S. Department of State. A spokesperson of the State Department gives a statement in the United States.
United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 aircraft are assigned to Strategic Air Command's 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing for filter duct calibration flight testing. An aircraft in a low flight over a field in the United States. It climbs up in the sky. The aircraft taxis after landing on a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A jeep is driven along the runway. Crewmen remove safety pins from outrigger wing gears. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The outrigger wing gears are jettisoned.
United States ship Langley (CV-1) underway as a United States Aeromarine 39-B aircraft crashes on the deck. At end of final approach, the airplane rolls to the right and lower right wing strikes the leading edge of the flight deck and breaks off. The aircraft ends nosed over and severely damaged. A Douglas DT-2 with pontoons (float plane) is catapulted from the carrier. Sailors sit beside the flight deck of the USS Langley.
United States aircraft land aboard the aircraft carrier Langley off the coast of California, United States. An aircraft marked 2F-10 after landing aboard the United States aircraft carrier Langley on May, 20th 1925. Aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Buse taxis along the flight deck.
Hurricane Janet hits Mexico. An officer loads relief material on a United States Navy HUP 2 helicopter. People on top of a Mexican hut submerged in water. A portion of the city of Tampico. The helicopter parked in a street as many Mexicans gather around it.
Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki during World War 2. View of the explosion as seen from U.S. aircraft. Cloud gradually growing taller and wider with huge column of smoke rising up. Formation of mushroom cloud with heavy column of smoke.
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