Street scene in Miami, Florida. Three men on a golf course. Horses start race at Hialeah Race track. View from window of WB-29A in flight through stratiform clouds. View from ground near a building, of gathering storm clouds. Inside the building, U.S. Air Force personnel (military and civilian) of the Joint Hurricane Warning Center at work. Hand seen annotating a Weather chart, displaying isobars. Military meteorologists looking at weather reports (Grady Norton in background). Weather personnel gathered in a classroom setting. Using a sketch on a blackboard, a supervisor discusses movement of a tropical storm heading toward Cuba. Grady Norton, Meteorologist-in-charge.stands alone, looking down on weather data (not seen). A woman brings him a cup of coffee.
Flight crew hurries to a U.S. Navy PB4Y weather reconnaissance aircraft parked on a ramp. It has "HP2" written on its side. It is later seen in flight. Then a U.S. Air Force WB-29 is seen in flight, followed by a switch to the PB4Y (with HP2 on its side) again seen in flight.
Reenactment, at Randolph Field, illustrating how new recruits are indoctrinated by upper class upon arrival for training as U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets. Upper class cadet standing with recruits on a veranda. He teaches them how to stand in a "brace" and conduct themselves. Interior of a barber shop. Cadets getting haircuts. Cadets dressed in newly issued uniforms. They have photographs taken for their ID cards.
Training of U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets at Randolph Field, Texas. Interior of a dining hall. The cadets walking up between the tables. They select seats but remain standing near them until the class fills the dining hall. An officer at the far end gives an order to be seated. Cadets sit down and start eating.
Training of U.S. Army Air Forces Flying Cadets at Randolph Field, Texas. Small platoons of six and eight cadets doing close-order drills in small areas. Various platoons mixed up and out of order during the process. A class of cadets taking a Morse code radio examination. Interior of an examination room shows cadets taking other types of written exams. A flight instructor with four students refers to posted mission data and map as he briefs his students on the way to their airplanes. .
Training of U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets. Cadets watch a three bladed propeller turning on a Class 26 instructional airframe at Randolph Field, Texas. (Class 26 refers to an airplane damaged beyond repair, from which the parts of the display were made. ) Cadets, at Kelly Field, look at BC-1airframe, resting on blocks, with skin partially removed to reveal internal structure. An instructor points out hydraulic lines as a cadet seated in the cockpit manually operates hydraulic pump to retract the landing gear. The landing gear is dropped and the process repeated several times. Cadets in a hangar learn about the construction of an airplane wing. The cadets receiving instruction on electrical system of an aircraft. Electrical units and circuitry mounted on a table.
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