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Air Force Now (Voting; Hurricane Hunters; B-52s; Olympic Sprinter Alonzo Babers & Exercise)

Reel Number: 220373-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1980s

Country: USA

Location: Castle Chatham AFB, California,Los Angeles, California

TC Begins: 02:22:05

TC Ends: 02:39:34

Duration: 00:17:29

Air Force Now (Hurricane Hunters; B-52s; Olympic Sprinter Alonzo Babers & Exercise) America - Worth Voting For VO: “My vote won’t make any difference...” over US Constitution being burned. 02:22:43 Title Sequence: Air Force Now (broken glass w/ planets). 02:23:14 Animated of weather satellites photos of hurricanes. VO 08Sept1900 - Hurricane in Galveston, Texas - stills aftermath (B/W). 02:23:31 SOF airman to camera re excitement. 17-18Aug69 Hurricane Camille, Mississippi good footage. 02:23:58 1983 Hurricane Alicia in Houston, Texas. Scenes. 02:24:15 Title: Hurricane Hunters. Old man in debris after hurricane. 02:24:31 Aerial of weather plane. SOF Lt. Dennis Wood, Commander of 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (WRS) to camera. Inside plane. Weather data men & analysis equipment. Briefing. Plane & taking off. View of plane against clouds; interior. VO of crew & SOF talking about their roll. Radar screen. 02:26:13 Hurricane eye. Taking measurements w/ equipment launched from plane on parachute. Crew working, pilots in cockpit. Aerials of plane. Eye of hurricane. 02:27:39 Title: 15Jun55 Castle AFB, California Pan across still of B-52, pilot William E. Eubank,Jr. in cockpit narrates. 93rd Bombardment Wing piloting B-52s. Various stills of refueling in flight. 02:28:54 Title: A Flying Legacy. Pilot talks about B-52s replacing B-47s. Crane shot B-52 prepared in hanger. Tracking shot, maintenance work underneath B-52. 02:30:27 Very stagey, dramatic crew briefing “Gentlemen, the ability to react is what we are all about.” Slow motion airmen running out on alert. Convoy of Dodge pickups on tarmac to plane. Slow motion crew climbing into plane. B-52 takeoff towards & over camera, away; camouflage in flight - in sunset. Landing at dusk. 02:31:34 CU Olympic 1984 Los Angeles medallion. Colour, Olympic still photographs of sprinter, breaking tape, w/ USA flag, spectators. Pan over empty stadium w/ pilot Alonzo Babers, winner of 440, in Air Force uniform on track talks of keeping fit. Montage: men pushing cargo off plane, at radarscope, swimming. Woman doctor explains values of aerobics exercise. Cycling (GOOD), cyclist talks; rides on highway against mountain background; runner talks about running / jogging. Men & women in aerobics class exercising; AF guy explains music as structure. Montage men & women give thumbs up sign: guard, tennis player, jogger, repairmen, truck driver, jogger, cyclists, guards, etc. 02:38:14 Air Force Now Coming Attractions Planes, Airborne Battlefield Command & Control Center (ABCCC) in flight; Bombing jungle & big explosions; Bud Mahurin interview (WWII pilot and Korean War POW). Presented By Your Air Force.

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