Crew of Strategic Air Command (SAC) Convair B-36 lined up for pre-flight inspection at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. Each Crew member checks another crew member's parachute. Crew members pick up personal gear and board the aircraft. Airmen perform assigned pre-flight inspection duties, check various sections of the B-36 before takeoff.
Flight line preparation of crew for flight at Yokota Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan. RB-45 Tornado, an USAF (United States Air Force) jet bomber. Man on small tractor carrying wheel for landing gear of RB-45. Men preparing to put the wheel on RB-45 using a large jack. Flight line mechanics jack up B-45 to remove wheel from landing gear. Flight line mechanics put new wheel on landing gear of RB-45.
Flight line mechanics of USAF (United States Air Force) put new wheel on the landing gear of RB-45. Mechanics place old wheel on dolly to be hauled off for repairs. Mechanics with dolly carrying old wheel moves toward hangar at Yokota Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan.
RB-45 Tornado at Yokota Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan. Flight line crew refueling RB-45. Gasoline trucks are seen as they leave. Flight-chief inspects RB-45 then goes inside the nose section of the air-plane. Flight-chief standing on ladder just outside the doorway of RB-45 fuselage, checking paper work.
USAF Protective Equipment Specialist and pilot come out of a building at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Sign outside the building reads: "Category 2 Restricted Area." Both men then leave in a USAF (United States Air Force) Divco truck. U-2 being serviced on flight line. Flight surgeon giving pilot preflight physical. Airman checking helmet and MC-3A partial pressure suit. Pilot climbing into the cockpit of the airplane. Crew Chiefs briefing Pilot on Form 781 Aircraft write-ups.
A USAF (United States Air Force) pilot inside the cockpit of a U-2 Aircraft parked at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. A technician checking pressure suit and hooking up oxygen bottle. Pilot checks some documents then strapped into U-2 cockpit.
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