Opening scene shows Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, conversing with an official dressed in white overalls, at Lasham Airfield (Lasham, Alton GU34 5SP, United Kingdom) in Hampshire, England. Numerous spectators are at the field and uniformed boy scouts maintain a cordon to keep them away from the airstrip and aircraft. Prince Philip is assisted as he straps into a Slingsby Type 42 Eagle. Next, the glider is seen being towed along the airstrip by a line from a tow plane (not seen). Scene shifts to aerial view from a glider high aloft over the English countryside. View of the glider with Prince Philip as it passes overhead and then, as it passes over the airfield, where numerous gliders are seen parked in the foreground. Film ends as Prince Philip is maneuvering the glider over the runway for landing.
Buildings on the sides of Kimpo airfield in Korea, during Korean War. Airfield in the background. U.S. aircraft F4U Corsair taxis with two auxiliary tanks. F4U Corsair parked. Pilot prepares to get out of the cockpit. Men stand on wing of F4U. Group of Marine officers including a two star General. General shakes hands with pilot.
Preparations for United States Army Air Force operations against the Japanese in China. Chinese men , women and children at the construction site of an airfield. Women carry boulders in cane baskets. Men and women work at the field. Hand drawn carts loaded with boulders. Men pile up boulders in a field. Boys near a muddy water pool. Men carry water in baskets. A roller moves over the airfield.
Jordanian King Hussein at Amman Airfield, Jordan. The King arrives at the airfield to board the aircraft, for a European trip. Other dignitaries at the airport with the king. Aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.
A Squadron of United States P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft on the ground at the airfield of the former German aircraft works of Bachmann & von Blumenthal & Co. KG, in the city of Furth, Germany, near Nuremberg. The entire Squadron takes off from the airfield, two aircraft at a time.
After a mission aircraft return and land at an airfield in England during World War II. Ground crewmen wait for the return of the aircraft. The crewmen in groups talk. The aircraft fly over the airfield. Men in a tower look through binoculars. A United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress breaks from a formation and lands. A Red Cross ambulance races across a strip.
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