American women volunteers in air defense mark locations on a table layout. Women equipped with microphone and headphones, receive instructions and place markers on locater table. Women raise their hands during the plotting operation. Markers on table show location and direction of aircraft flight.
Clock on wall shows time as 11:15. Two male workers sit at desk in an office building. They look out of window to see the aircraft passing overhead. One of them speaks over phone and delivers message of aircraft passing overhead with time and its location, as part of civilian air defense measures in the United States.
Atlas D missile 7D is seen, at night, on pad LC-14 At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, ready for a suborbital test. Camera tracks it through lift off and through thin cloud layer. At TC: 00:54, screen goes dark. At TC: 01:02, camera picks up rocket flame again, as it passes through some cloud. The missile seems to be falling at this time. At TC: 01: 47, it explodes in a fireball and disappears. (Note: Reportedly, this launch failed due to a malfunction of one of the hold-down arms on LC-14 which damaged plumbing in the missile and allowed helium pressure gas to escape during ascent. The common bulkhead between the propellant tanks collapsed after the pressure difference between them became too great. Also notable because the Mercury astronauts were invited to watch the launch.)
A large crowd witnesses the National Balloon Race. Balloons are dispersed among the crowd. Passengers seen in baskets attached to balloons as they take off one by one to begin the race as crowd cheers them on. Balloons fly in the air. (Note: This event took place near the present-day intersection of Bellaire Blvd. and Stella Link Rd.)
British pilots perform in an air show . Plane emits smoke while performing a loop.. An autogyro is seen towing a large object. Parachutists jump from three planes flying in formation. The parachutists descend and finally land on ground. in front of spectators. Planes perform in-trail aerobatics in sky. A dirigible is seen in the distance.
A large blimp being prepared on the ground and then released in the air near shore of Lake Michigan. It is surrounded by many aircraft. Pilot and a gunner with mounted machine gun are in a plane. The gunner fires at the blimp. A parachute is seen descending toward ground. The blimp catches fire and drops down burning.
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