A USAF (United States Air Force) pilot inside the cockpit of a U-2 Aircraft parked at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Technicians doing pre-flight inspections. U-2 taxies, takes off and gains high altitude. An official car departs from the runway. C-123 Provider, an American military transport aircraft parked near the hangar building.
comparative evaluation of four USAF planes: C-119C, XC-123, SA-16 and C-47F for the Strategic Air Command, Escape and Evasion mission. Unassisted take-offs of the planes form Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida is shown. SA-16 taking off from hard surface runway, followed by C-119C, C-47F and XC-123.
Comparative testing for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. RATO (rocket assisted take-off) from paved surface at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. C-119C RATO on hard paved runway followed by C-47F, XC-123 and SA-16 at Eglin AFB.
Views of USAF (United States Air Force) airplanes parked at the airstrip of Langley Air Force Base. Lt. Col. Robert Olds standing in front of a B-17 airplane. A ground crew man gets into a rubber lifeboat and moves oars back and forth. Ground crewman pushing landing gear wheel of a B-17. B-17 taxiing and taking off from Langley airstrip. Aerial view of Langley field, nearby buildings and waterway as aircraft ascend. View inside B-17 of pilot and co-pilot in cockpit of the B-17. Airplanes in flight, aerial views of formation of B-17 aircraft in flight.
A man fires pistol in air at an air base in England. U.S. planes taxiing and taking off. Aerial view of planes taking off. (World War II period).
A review of remote controlled weapons of the United States Army Air Force such as the Power Driven Bomb. A U.S. Army Air Force base, airmen drag out a test power bomb, an AT-21 aircraft and a target plane PQ-2. The control system instruments of the power bomb in its cockpit are shown, indication meters and controllers. Planes take off simultaneously on a runway, PQ-2 gliding in sky. AA outfit in the desert. Anti-aircraft guns fires on plane. Projectiles burst near the PQ-2 airplane. Both aircraft land on a runway. Flak holes in PQ-2 fuselage. (World War II period).
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