U.S. Air Force X-15A rocket powered aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. An X-15A aircraft at a paint shop. The nose section of the aircraft. The X-15A being towed out of the paint shop into a hangar. The aircraft enters the hangar. A technician works in an underground section of the aircraft in the hangar. Another technician in the foreground takes down notes. The aircraft on scales.
A novel sled propelled by rockets being tested at Muroc Air Force Base (Edwards Air Force Base) in California. Sled on track. Man stands besides tracks. Driver wears safety jacket and gets into a sled. Man closes door of the sled. Sled runs on tracks. Driver of sled smiles.
Aerial view of a small United States air strip in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft lands on a tiny airstrip. Vietnamese boys sitting watch the aircraft land. United States Air Force and South Vietnamese soldiers unload supplies from aircraft. Views of captured North Vietnamese Vietcong rebel soldiers. A vietcong prisoner squatting. Soldiers tie up captured Vietcong rebels lying down on aircraft floor. Soldiers assist North Vietnamese prisoners of war (POW) with hands tied behind their backs to exit helicopter after landing. A United States aircraft drops crates of supplies and cattle in flight. Cow mooing is heard. An officer communicates through walkie talkie. Crate parachutes activate during descent. Soldiers in Jeep. A Vietnamese soldier inspect cattle in crate.
At Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base: General John Dale Ryan comes out of the barracks. View of sign 8th A AND E MAINT. General Ryan walks under TOC over which sign on arch reads ' YE WHO PASSETH THRU THESE PORTALS STAND TALL'. General Ryan with Colonel Robin Olds, Commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, leaving in car. General Ryan goes over to sleeping quarters in cantonment area. Boeing KC-135A taxis out and takes off to right.
A follow-me jeep drives over a parking space on the ramp at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, next to several parked RF-4Cs. The RF-4C following the jeep pulls into the parking space and shuts down. Ground crewmen place chocks under the wheels and install landing gear pins. Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) open canopies. They complete post-flight checklists and talk with crew chief. An airman downloads camera equipment from the airplane.
Ground crewmen performing routine maintenance on an RF-4C aircraft on the flight line at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. An RF-4C taxis into parking place with canopies open. Crew chief and Pilot discuss something. The Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) climb out of the aircraft and converse with ground crewmen and a Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain, on the ramp. Pilot fills out Form 1.
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