Sign board on an entrance building reads 'Bolling Air Force Base' in Washington DC. B-26 Marauder aircraft, B-25 Bombers and other aircraft parked at Bolling field. Maintenance crew works on engine of aircraft. Aircraft C-24 taxiing up toward alert crew member waving. Administrative personnel work at their desks. An early business machine automatically printing a piece of paper, with print unit moving up and down in front of paper. Airman boards a boat that serves as a ferry between Bolling Air Force base harbor and the Pentagon. Dental check up of an airman in dental clinic. Sign board reads 'Bolling Air Force Directory'. View of Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as seen from a moving boat on the Potomac River, near the Memorial Bridge. The Jefferson Memorial. Federal buildings in Washington DC.
NASA Astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Board reads 'Stead Air Force Base Welcomes You'. Training instructed by Captain Robert W. Weaver. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF walk out of the building and board H-21B helicopter. Two Helicopter in flight to Desert Command post. Astronauts improvise protective clothing at desert command post.
A loading operation of relief supplies, army personnel and equipment in a C-130A Hercules of the 322nd Air Division at Ramstein Air Force Base (and NATO Command Base) in Kaiserslautern, Germany for the Iran disaster. A truck is moved inside the plane through a ramp. Men work on the propellers and the engine of the plane. 7th Army personnel near the plane. Medical boxes are loaded inside the plane. Army men load crates. The load master checks a list. The side of the plane reads '322nd Air Division'. Army men load baggages inside the plane.
Two B-36Ds, of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 6th Bomb Wing, parked on snowy ramp at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. A Convair B-36D landing at Thule Air Force Base. At end of ground roll snow is blown in front of the aircraft from reversed propellers. Airmen unload gear from aircraft at Thule. A B-36D taxiing on 4 inboard prop engines. Two B-36s landing in succession.
United States Army Air Force crew at their base in the Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A Army Air Force officer stands on a hoist near the cockpit of a B-29 bomber paints a picture on it. Picture of a baby wearing boxing gloves. Officer paints the baby's diaper with white paint. Soldier looks at nose art painting on the B-29 nose with written wording "Deaner Boy" on it. Another soldier walks up and looks at the nose art painting. (Note: Painter might be Lieutenant Dean C. Forburger, based on examination of image reflected back from aircraft body. Forburger was a B-29 pilot stationed at Tinian at the time, and images exist of him standing beneath this nose art. Forburger was not a member of the crew on Deaner Boy when it perished in a mid-air collision accident in February 1945. The Deaner Boy nose art was painted at least twice on this aircraft, as there are also other images of it in existence with a side-facing baby and cursive lettering for "Deaner Boy").
A VC-137 Stratoliner residential aircraft of the United States Air Force One parked at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland near Washington DC. Crewmen at the base. President of United States Richard Nixon arrives in a helicopter and walks towards the Air Force One plane. The new name of the plane 'Spirit of 76' written on its nose. Pilot of the plane looks from cockpit as President talks to an official and poses for a photo. President Nixon walks over loading ramp and climbs stairs of now the plane. He turns and waves to the crowd. Crowd of men, women and children watch the plane taking off.
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