United States Military Air Transport Service aircraft lands in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during timeframe of Cuban Missile Crisis. United States soldiers step down plane with their baggage. Soldiers gather at runway. Hangar named Leeward Point Field seen. View of air traffic controllers in tower, looking out over airfield.
Army Air Force's huge boomerang shaped YB-49 flying wing bomber takes to the air on spectacular maiden flight in Hawthorne, California. People standing and working on YB-49. The aircraft climbs quickly. Smoke pouring from its eight jet engines.
Models and drawings of futuristic planes in the Air Force Laboratories at Wright Field, Ohio. Scenes of XP-67 aircraft in flight. A Northrup N9MB Experimental Flying Wing aircraft taxiing and in flight. A larger version, the XB-35 aircraft under construction. The XB-35 taking off. P-82 aircraft taxiing and taking off. Pilot in P-82. P-82 in flight. The XB-36 aircraft being assembled for its initial test flight, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth, Texas. XB-36 taking off from the Convair factory runway, at Fort Worth, Texas, and then in flight, with landing gear (of two 110-inch single tires) extended. View from above it as XB-36 lands at Eglin Air Field (one of only three airfields capable of bearing its high pressure wheel loading, which required concrete 22 inches thick). Officers standing by the tire of the XB-36 aircraft . B-50 aircraft taxiing and taking off. B-50 buzzing field. Demonstration of variable pitch propeller operation, including the blades going into full feather position. B-50 in flight on one engine, with props on engines 1,3, and 4 feathered. Testing landing gear on C-69 aircraft. C-69 landing. Testing landing gear of B-32 aircraft. Wind tunnels. Series of shots of wind tunnel.
View from inside a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft taking off from a field in Tunisia, during World War 2. Martin B-26 bombers seen parked on the field below. View from the air of a B-26 taking off. Formation of aircraft in flight. A B-26 viewed from above as it comes in for a landing.
U.S. Army Air Force Captain R W Foy of 363 Squadron, 357 Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, trailing a German ME-109, which crashes and burns, during World War 2.
2nd Lieutenant W F Flynt, 384 Squadron, 364 Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, shoots German FW-190 aircraft, right wing on fire. He also engages an ME-109, shows hit on aircraft. Lieutenant Flynt circles and strafes crashed German aircraft.Lieutenant W F Flynt, 384 Squadron, 364 Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, shoots down German FW-190 aircraft (World War II period).
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