Structural tests of U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. B-36 fuselage, from tail forward, and wing section being lifted off the floor during a Static Test hangar. B-36 fuselage and wing section being turned upside down as weights are placed on underside of wing. Civilian personnel at instrument panel. Fuselage and wing section of B-36 undergo tests. Man at instrument panel. Various stations of B-36 with the stress and ruptures of the parts.
Structural tests of U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Various stations of B-36 with the stress and ruptures of the parts. Parts of the aircraft after conducting the landing gear tests. Wing section of B-36. Weights on wing of B-36, and showing the moment that a rupture occurs in the wing section. B-36 takes off from a runway.
Two airplanes taxi and take off. U-2 taxies to runway and take off. Airmen removing Pogo wheels from wing tip of U-2 then plane takes off at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, United States.
Lockheed U-2D aircraft, number 56-6695, of the U.S. Air Force 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, taxis to runway at McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Airmen remove Pogo wheels from wing tips of U2. Aircraft takes off and climbs rapidly in nose high attitude. The U-2 in flight. (Note: U-2D, number 56-6695 Crashed on 7 July 1964 near Fujian, China while monitoring supply routes from China to North Vietnam.)
Technician removes recorder unit from access panel of U-2 nose section. Airplane is parked in hangar at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. Technician places recorder unit in U-2 nose section, then closes the access panel. Airman draws tire from supply unit and keeps it in locker room.
U-2 airplane in flight. U-2 taxis and takes off. Airmen put pogo wheels at wings of U-2 aircraft. Pilot sitting in cockpit. U-2 parked with pogo wheels on both the sides at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. U-2 being loaded with equipment. Technicians under the aircraft. Tail section of airplane is seen.
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