Women train as flight nurses. Buildings at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. Guard house entrance. A car comes by. Military Police salutes. Students, including nurses of the Army and Navy, file into lecture room. An African American woman is among the group of nurses in training. An officer before a chart. An officer lectures on air and water movements. Another officer explains on water movements on a chart. Girls listen and make notes. An officer lectures on various pressures illustrating his talk on blackboard. A woman officer explains inter-personal relations. Students, some in Naval uniforms, whereas some in Army uniforms ask questions.
U.S. Air Force Firefighters spray foam on burning McDonnell-Douglas RF-4C-30-MC Phantom Reconnaissance jet aircraft, serial number 66-0411, that crashed during attempted landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin Texas. The aircraft on a routine night mission hit a power line and crashed into a house during its landing approach. The house can be seen in background behind the flaming wreckage of the RF-4C. Although the two aircrew were killed, the narrator states the eight residents of the house were miraculously unhurt.
Film opens showing a display case in the Bolling Air Force Base Officer's Club, containing a model of the Atlantic-Fokker C-2A aircraft flown by pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps, in January, 1929 when they set an endurance record of more than 150 hours sustained flight. Below it is a Wright J-5 Whirlwind R-790 engine that powered the flight. Next a large poster is shown commemorating the 35th anniversary of the feat (1929 to 1964). It contains photos of highlights from that event. Next, the retired officers pass the display of model and engine as they descend stairs and enter dining room. Most are in civilian clothes. But several attendees are active duty officers in uniform. Major Sidney Kubesch, pilot on record-breaking B-58 flight from Tokyo-to-London, pauses to stand and look at the display case. General Nathan Twining; General Ira Eaker seen briefly at the display case. At end of clip, General Carl Spaatz stands alone, looking at the display.
Technicians board a new flying radar station (American Air Force's modified plane) at the McCllelan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. Plane in flight at high altitude.
Tests to determine structural integrity of aircraft composite materials by the U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Hazards Group at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. A model advanced development composite aircraft in vertical position. A Tesla Coil is used to create extremely high voltage arcs. The voltage arcs strike and pass through the composite aircraft.
Tests to determine structural integrity of composite materials by the U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Hazards Group at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. A model advanced development composite aircraft in horizontal position facing left. A Tesla Coil is used to create extremely high voltage arcs. The voltage arcs strike and pass through the composite aircraft. The test conducted in the dark. The test repeated with the aircraft facing right.
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