Aerial refueling demonstration at Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. View of a B-50 bomber, flying in trail behind KC-97 tanker aircraft, as the B-50 maneuvers for in-flight refueling. View of pilot in cockpit of the B-50. View from the B-50 cockpit as the refueling boom nozzle extends toward it from the KC-97. This is followed by an immediate view of the event, from the tail of the KC-97, as the nozzle connects with a single point refueling port on the top of the B-50. Aerial view from another airplane, of the two aircraft flying during the fuel transfer operation. (Light panels, appearing from this side view, as bumps on the underside of the KC-97, are designed to help a pilot attain and hold the proper position beneath the tanker during refueling.)
Crowd in stands, for the 1929 Cleveland Air Races, watch as formations of U.S. Army airplanes put on a show for them. Charles A. Lindbergh, seated in the stands, looks through binoculars. Army planes spell out their initials in formation. Various flying formations of Army airplanes. A flight of three Army biplanes performs a loop in formation.
Honor Guard in formation in front of SEAC (South East Asia Command) headquarters in Kandy, Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) during World War II. Car stops in front of SEAC headquarters. Guard takes picture of officer under tree. British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park exits out of car. Sir Keith trooping line of Honor Guard. Sir Keith walks into building.
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. Open Stadium is packed with spectators. Al Wilson dons his flying helmet and flies a Curtiss Pusher replica, performing aerobatics, including an inside loop. Glider pilot Jack O'Meara performs for the crowd, landing in the grass and smiling for the camera. (Note: Flier Al Wilson was killed later during these same Cleveland aviation events, when his 1910 Curtiss plane collided with an autogyro during landing.)
Military Airlift Command Air Weather Service recon aircraft are shown. A B-57 taxiing; a C-135 in flight; a C-130 in flight. View inside C-130 showing crew stations and equipment. View of B-57 used for high altitude radiation sampling.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. U.S. Army pilots aim machine guns at moving target consisting of an aircraft model traveling horizontally along a wire or string. The soldiers track the moving target with their machine guns. A student or officer shows one of the machine guns up close and demonstrates techniques to load and adjust the the machine gun on a tripod stand. Another student seated in an airplane cockpit behind the same type of machine gun. A target board used for target practice, with images of enemy aircraft in various positions, to simulate dogfight battle.
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