U.S. Air Force X-15A rocket powered aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. USAF Major William J. Knight in flight gear walks towards an X-15A aircraft. He gets into the cockpit of the aircraft. A technician talks to Major Knight as he points towards a note pad. A wind vane at the air base indicates wind direction. A sign on a vehicle reads 'NASA9'. A silhouetted technician in a control room in the foreground. USAF NB-52B Stratofortress aircraft in the background. Technicians close the canopy of the X-15A aircraft. The NB-52B aircraft with the X-15A under its wing at the air base. The NB-52B aircraft taxis and takes off.
SAC unit arrives for a briefing session at Brize-Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet SAC(Strategic Air Command ) unit members arrive in a room for a briefing session. An officer with long mustaches holds papers in his hands. A paper kept on a desk. Members seated on chairs. Men stand at the base. A medical van arrives and they get in the van. Vehicles move in the background. Buildings in the background. A sign reads 'Brize Norton, R.A.F. Station 3920th Air Base Group, Welcomes You'. SAC members take notes. Colonel Kunkle uses a pointer to point out an aerial route for the unit. He passes the stick to next officer Major Hess. He attaches maps onto another map, and describes the mission to the bomb wing. The crew members take notes.
Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War I. Hangars of the First Aero Depot and mechanics working on French Spad XIII biplane fighters, Spad XVI, and Sopwith 1-1/2-Strutter biplane reconnaissance aircraft parked on a ramp at a French air base. Large canvas-covered maintenance hangars in the background. Two Spad XIIIs, a Spad VII and four British Sopwith 1-1/2-Strutter biplanes parked in front of the canvas-covered hangars. Sopwith 1-1/2-Strutter in a flight line at the air base. Mechanics push a Spad VII. A group of officers get in cockpits and looks over a group of Spad XIIIs at the air base.
Operations of the Hurricane Hunters at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. A data sheet being removed from a dropsonde read-out instrument aboard a United States Air Force Lockheed WC-130 Hercules. A sign at the entrance of a building reads: 'Welcome to Ramey Air Force Base, Home of the 72nd Bomb Wing (H), 72nd Combat Support Group'. The Lockheed WC-130 Hercules aircraft taxiing at the air base. Buildings in the background. The airplane in flight overhead. A duty officer removing a weather report from a teletype machine. He hands the report to Major Stewart.
United States airmen at Borgo air base in Corsica, France during World War II. A wrecked Royal Air Force Wellington bomber at Borgo air base and a crane next to it. An aircraft in flight over the air base. The crane near the nose section of the aircraft. A sign on the fuselage reads 'Johny Quaker, the Jerry Shaker'.
View of corrugated steel revetments set up for explosives. A new Military Affiliate Radio System Station (MARS) with Centralized Command and Control Center is shown. U.S. air force officer getting into jeep and backing out.
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