Munition operations at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Closeup of U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs on a flat bed truck in a bomb assembly area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. When they finish the driver climbs into the truck cab. Closeup of writing on truck door reading: "U.S. Air Force, 67B 1362, For Oficial Use Only." It pulls out of the assembly bay. Closeup of driver speaking on mobile telephone in the truck, as he drives.
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage taken from GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) camera mounted under right wing of F- 102 in flight. MB-1 rocket fired from rail launcher. Technicians work on F-102A parked outside a hangar. Two technicians wheel an MB-1 rocket on a dolly, underneath F- 102A parked on ramp. Three technicians check out and calibrate special instrumentation to be used during the test run. The instruments include different types of oscillographs, and photo panels. Special camera installations made on the F-102A vertical stabilizer, fuselage, and wings. Technician installs a l6mm camera inside the aircraft nose, then closes access panel. F-102A takes off. Radar vectoring station T-1 at Holloman AFB. Technician operates one of the tracking scanners installed on roof of building. Two men, inside the vectoring station, control the course of the test aircraft by radio communication from the vectoring machine plotting charts. The pilot in F-102A cockpit as he turns on the recording cameras to activate the armament system. MB-1 bomb extended below the aircraft. Engineer talks on the radio phone inside the vectoring station. Pilot's hand on the control stick as he activates the firing switch. MB-l rocket is fired from the short rail launcher. The aircraft is enveloped in a trail of white smoke. GSAP camera mounted underneath the right wing of the F-102A, shows the MB-l rocket being fired from the short rail launcher. Smoke due to the firing of the rocket.
Film opens with view from left side of a U.S. Air Force truck moving in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The moving truck passes a team of Air Force munitions handlers off loading bombs from a flat bed truck, using a mobile crane. A crate of bombs has just been set on the ground. Next, the camera truck approaches an entrance gate of the facility, where an Air Force surveyor stands with a transit on a tripod. Several Thai persons stand in the shade of the entrance guard shack. One carries a camera. A guard is posted at the roadway. A sign atop the guard shack reads: "U-Tapao, 635 MMS, Munitions Storage Area." Closeup of the armed guard as he checks the camera truck and motions it to proceed. Scene changes showing a Thai truck carrying explosives, approaching to enter the Storage area. It is waved on by the armed sentry. Closeup of the sign at the Storage area entrance, shows logos of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Air Forces and the 13th Air Force. A U.S. Air Force tractor trailer truck, loaded with bombs, drives in an area of the facility containing racks of M117 General Purpose Bombs on low trailers in yellow steel shelters. Closeup of an Airman moving a bomb into a cradle that carries it up into the rack. An Air Force munitions handler rolling M117 bombs by their fins. Next, a munitions handling team is seen using a mobile crane to move a crate of bombs from a flat bed truck. The Team supervisor (a Staff Sergeant) spreaks into a walkie talkie radio during the operations.
Film opens showing an intermediate munitions handling facility near a seaport in Thailand. Trucks are lined up on the roadside, next to huge earthen berms. U.S. Airmen ride in the back of an open truck leaving the site, transporting crates of Mk 82 bombs to munitions storage facility at U-Tapao Royal Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai workers stand in a group, conversing, near a corrugated metal shelter at the side of the road, and watch as the truck disappears from view in the distance. Scene shifts to closeup of the U.S. Air Force truck driver in his cab, talking on a walkie talkie radio. As he talks, the truck passes large numbers of munitions stockpiled outdoors between earthen berms. View from the truck cab as it passes tractor trailer trucks and fork lifts operating in the area. Rearward view from the moving truck. View, from left side of the moving truck, shows red markers at the edge of each earthen revetment separating adjacent storage areas. Some such areas are empty. Next, the moving truck passes a mobile crane hooking up to bombs on the back of a flat bed truck. A team of Air Force munitions handlers is involved, including one moving bombs on a fork lift.
Test of SAC (Strategic Air Command) T 171/ A-5 Turret at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked on ground. Airman removes nose top of Boeing B-47 Stratojet aircraft. Another airman places an instrument atop target board. Airman looks into an instrument. Crew members check Gatling gun on Boeing B-47 Stratojet aircraft.
A film titled 'B-58 Low altitude bombing capacity' about the low angle flying ability of U.S. Air Force B-58 Hustler aircraft. A B-58 Hustler aircraft takes off from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. A flight crew in the cockpit of the aircraft. A map traces the route of the B-58 aircraft from Carswell Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base and back. The aircraft in flight. An airspeed meter on the control panel in the cockpit of the aircraft. The meter reads 600 knots. The aircraft in flight. Camera crew sets up camera equipment. The B-58 aircraft flies at a low altitude. The aircraft flies over a lake, a desert and mountains.
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