U.S. Air Force C-82 transport aircraft in flight over snow-covered mountainous terrain in Korea. Several aircraft are seen in flight from the window of one plane. C-82 transports drop supplies via parachute. A pilot seen at controls. (Korean War period.)
An air pickup rescue in China. A R-6 helicopter evacuates wounded soldiers. A L-20 Beaver picks up soldiers from the ground using a technique at a speed of 130 mph. A soldier being strapped before the airlift. The aircraft lifts him up with great speed. A United States aircraft parked. (World War II period).
One of the Operation Teapot atomic tests at the Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada. B-36H Aircraft in flight at almost 37 thousand feet. Several contrails in sky. Aerial blast goes off high in sky forming a white fireball, it darkens quickly. It looks like a doughnut with a large hole in its center. It closes up fast and produce an odd-shaped circular smoke cloud. It has a appearance of a doughnut with a shallow area in the center. (Note: Because of the extreme high altitude of this air-drop test , the device was retarded, by parachute, to allow the B-36 time to travel a safe distance before detonation.)
Opens shows a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber taxiing on an airfield. Views from the side and from above the taxiing aircraft. AGM-28 Hound Dog missiles seen under the wings. View of underside of wings. A gloved hand raises guards on switches and they are activated. From inside an aircraft, two Hound Dog missiles are seen as they drop from it. Scene shifts to a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft taking off. Views of a B-52 bomber hooking up to refuel from a KC-135 tanker aircraft. Refueling boom is seen slowly extending to connect with the refueling input of the B-52. View of the boom operator lying down in the tail of the KC-135 tanker, maneuvering the boom. View, from his perspective, of the B-52 and refueling boom as they connect and begin refueling. Aerial views of the the two aircraft hooked together and then disconnecting after refueling is complete. Animated world globe is shown depicting Soviet threat. An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen launching. Views of B-52 bombers in flight.
Aerial refueling demonstration at Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. View of a B-50 bomber, flying in trail behind KC-97 tanker aircraft, as the B-50 maneuvers for in-flight refueling. View of pilot in cockpit of the B-50. View from the B-50 cockpit as the refueling boom nozzle extends toward it from the KC-97. This is followed by an immediate view of the event, from the tail of the KC-97, as the nozzle connects with a single point refueling port on the top of the B-50. Aerial view from another airplane, of the two aircraft flying during the fuel transfer operation. (Light panels, appearing from this side view, as bumps on the underside of the KC-97, are designed to help a pilot attain and hold the proper position beneath the tanker during refueling.)
Crowd in stands, for the 1929 Cleveland Air Races, watch as formations of U.S. Army airplanes put on a show for them. Charles A. Lindbergh, seated in the stands, looks through binoculars. Army planes spell out their initials in formation. Various flying formations of Army airplanes. A flight of three Army biplanes performs a loop in formation.
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