Training of a chimpanzee during Project Mercury at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Trainers walk with a chimpanzee. The cage of the chimpanzee. Several chimpanzees in the cage.
Training of a chimpanzee during Project Mercury at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A chimpanzee seated on a spacecraft couch. He operates levers in the spacecraft.
Training of a chimpanzee during NASA Project Mercury preparations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Animal test is conducted as chimpanzee rides a rocket sled on a track. Men walk along the side of the track. Buildings in the background. Technicians check the chimp (not seen) after the rocket sled test.
A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
An aircraft of the U.S. 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing, preparing for mission at Suwon Air base(K-13) in South Korea during the Korean War. An airman standing under one of the wings of an F-86 Sabre and preparing to refuel the aircraft. The airman fixing the fuel pipe on to the tank of the aircraft from a fuel tanker. 'FU-367' written on the aircraft. Two airmen standing beside the fuel tanker. One of the airmen writing down a note. An airman opening a compartment on the side of the F-86, using a screwdriver. 'The Georgia Peach' written on the compartment door. The airman checking the machine gun ammunition inside the compartment.
An F-86 sabrejet of the U.S. 8th Fighter-bomber Wing at Suw0n Air Base (K-13). South Korea, during the Korean War. The pilot seated in the cockpit. 'FU 491' written beside the tail of the aircraft. The F-86 taxiing on the runway. The bombs seen in position under each wing of the aircraft. Another F-86 in the background on the runway. The F-86 Sabre preparing for take-off. Airfield covered with pierced steel plank.
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