Major General David William Hutchison visits to present Legion of Merit award. Major General David William Hutchison disembarks from United States C-130A air plane. Officers follow him. He leaves flight line by staff car at Sondrestrom AB in Greenland. Control tower with sign "Sonderstrom Air Base" in Greenland.
A large group of retired Air Force officers are seen seated at a number of tables during a luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 endurance record setting flight of the Fokker C-2A aircraft named "Question Mark." The event is in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeup of General Carl Spaatz, addressing the group from a podium. Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are listening, along with Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who,in October 1963, was aircraft commander on the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Lieutenant General Ira Eaker addresses the group next. Closeup of him and of General Spaatz tilting his head to hear. The audience applauding. Sergeant Roy Hooe then addresses the group. The clip ends as the luncheon ends and the participants socialize.
Strategic Air Command (SAC) Reflex Action Alert flight crew members, responding to on alert, run across icy ramp to man their B-47 aircraft at the Loring Air Force Base in Maine, United States. Crew is seen preparing to board and launch. Heater hoses are attached to the aircraft. Pilot talks to crew chief, who then attends to ground auxiliary power unit and communicates with aircrew using mike and headset. Sun is setting.Snow plowed from alert area and runway. Three responding crew members slip and slide as they run over ice. A flight line guard, carrying a carbine and wearing fur lined parka, checks their passes and lets them continue. Aircraft in flight seen in background.
8th Air Force Replacement Center in Stafford, England. Women's Army Corps (WAC) walking in queue with eating utensils. One of the WAC member seen with bugler as others entering in the mess. Various messages stenciled on backs of some of the women's uniforms, including, "Top Kick Lets Go On the Double" and "I dood it". WAC women serving themselves and eating at the tables. Three WAC women cleaning the mess utensils in the garden while one is seen at the window. One at the window talking with the other in the ground and polishing a shoe. WAC marching towards the air force base in uniforms while band is seen in the background. WAC enters the ground and band players are also seen. WAC salutes the senior officers.
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.
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