Republic F-84E-10-RE straight-wing Thunderjet aircraft of the USAF 86th Fighter-Bomber Wing are seen parked on grass at Neubiberg Air Base, near Munich, Germany. They display the Wing's checkerboard tail, nose, and tip tank markings. An F-84,with FS-256 stenciled on its fuselage, taxis on a narrow concrete strip between the other aircraft, and then proceeds onto a main taxiway. Next, the camera pans across the large grassy field, and focuses on an F-84 as it takes off. Across the runway, in the distant background, hangars and several parked aircraft can be seen. Camera pans, again, showing grass and a stake post, in the ground. Another F-84 takes off. Two C-47s and a MATS (Military Air Transport Service) C-54 are parked on the ramp in the background. Two C-47s taxi in the background, as another F-84 takes off. A GCA (Ground-controlled approach) radar installation is seen parked at the side of the runway.
Project Cirrus, Wiesbaden Germany. Aircraft from a squadron of Italian de Havilland DH.100 Vampire jets move along a taxiway, after landing, to be parked. After they arrive and have shut down their engines, Italian ground crews maneuver the aircraft to park them at an angle, one after another, . Five men spin one aircraft completely around and back it into its desired position. One of them uses a metal tow bar to steer the nose wheel, while others maneuver the aircraft. Ground crewmen handle another arriving Vampire jet, in a similar fashion. C-47 support aircraft are seen in the distant background. Four Vampire jets buzz the field in formation as they prepare to break off and land..
Project Cirrus, Wiesbaden Germany. Camera focuses on a line of Italian de Havilland DH.100 Vampire jet aircraft parked along a taxiway. Three land,in succession, on the active runway in the near background. C-47 support aircraft are parked on a ramp in the far background. An Italian ground crewman places a cover over the pitot tube of one Vampire jet.
Italian Air Force Vampire jet planes (de Havilland DH.100 design) parked at Wiesbaden Airfield, Germany. Closeup of Italian ground crewman on the wing of one. He uses a wrench to loosen and remove a fuel tank cap. Next, he uses a hose to refuel the tank in one wing of the aircraft while another man is handed a hose and refuels the tank on the other wing, where he is standing.
A straight-wing Republic F-84E Thunderjet of the USAF 86th Fighter-Bomber Wing landing at Neubiberg Air Base near Munich, Germany. A USAF C-47 is holding short on the taxiway. Next, a crash truck is seen stationed on the taxiway.Across the field, Two C-47s, a B-17, and a C-54 are parked. Scene shifts to closeup of a tank truck carrying JP-3 fuel, parked next an 86th Wing F-84. An airman sits on the plane's left tip tank. The fuel truck operator and another airman pull two refueling hoses from the truck and carry them to airmen sitting on the aircraft's tip tanks. The aircraft is parked on Marsden Matting aka pierced steel planking. Closeup of the airman on the plane's right wing takes his hose and inserting it into the right tip tank. Views of him filling the tank. Two airmen are behind the fuel truck. One watches the fuel gages. Scene shifts to two airmen mechanics atop the aircraft. They are assembling and installing an avionics component. Closeup of the aircraft's crew chief, TSgt G. Cavert, sitting on the wing , next to a painting on fuselage of the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron logo: a black crow holding a bomb over its head ready to throw it. The names: Col. G. Laven and TSgt G. Calvert are painted above and below the logo, respectively. (This aircraft is F-84E-30-RE Thunderjet number 51-624 flown by the commander of the 86th Fighter Bomber Group, Colonel George Laven Jr. who flies with the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron.) Next several of the 86th Wing's aircraft are seen parked, and one airman is seated near an anti-aircraft gun, while another plays catch with someone, unseen.
Project Cirrus, Wiesbaden Germany. C-119 aircrafts in flight as French paratroopers of March Battalion drop from the aircrafts. Parachutes float down, drop zone terrain dotted with parachutes for miles. Parachutes mainly white in color float downwards.
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