Air Force Now - Tomorrow’s Air Force (Magic of High Technology)

Tomorrow’s Air Force (Magic of High Technology) Space shuttle launch. Model of shuttle in space. 14:18:10 Title. 14:18:25 Herbert Jefferson Jr. - actor from series Battleship Galactica in space suit. 14:19:07 LANTERN program: Night vision equipment for F-16 low-level night flying. SOF description. 14:20:15 B1 bomber taking off to camera; CU cockpit controls & instruments. SOF on maintenance of electronics. Plane taxies & takes off, F-15 in flight, target plane exploding in flight. 14:21:31 AFTI system added onto F-16, two small wings below cockpit. 14:21:53 Research plane, X-29 taxiing, test pilot Ted Wierzbanowski SOF. Aerial shot in flight from above, below & along side. GOOD. 14:23:10 SSgt L. Tripp into Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory dynamic environment simulator - human centrifuge. Exterior simulator turning. Int. w/ pilot in seat & G-forces. Control room. SOF on developing anti-G suit control valve for F-16. 14:25:15 Title: MAGIC: The Cockpit of the 1990’s. Woman SOF describes Microcomputer Applications of Graphics In Interactive Communications. re cockpit using computer graphics & interactive communications developed by Flight Dynamic Laboratory. Early computer graphics - CGI. Pictorial formats & grid-like graphics exploring concepts to put into cockpits. Pilot puts on futuristic helmet. Man w/ headphones & integrated microphone. 14:28:22 Flight Simulator w/ red light flashing. LAMARS simulating new design. Pilot in simulator & control room watching pilot working w/ systems they are developing. Air-space lab at Wright-Patterson AFB. Flight simulator. Liquid crystal display. Computer graphics. CU of faces, electronic printouts. 14:30:25 Laser Technology Laser fired, flames. Mel Rockmore, scientist for combustion research. Slow motion w/ flames. Gas turbine combustor Physicist says their interest is in defending things against lasers; making materials more resistant to lasers. Flashing lights, laser lights, 14:31:45 Brainwave research. Woman w/ helmet; brainwave readout focussing on blinking light. Implant for direct communication between brain & computer. 14:32:35 Digital Circuitry in CU. Woman reading w/ magnifying scope in clean room. Handling chip. 14:33:25 Computer Graphics, CGI, designers at work around large drafting table developing requirements. CU computer keyboard, face. Three computers seen w/ screens designing plane & missiles with computer graphics. CGI. Space shuttle type design. Spaceship space shuttle model over earth. 14:35:55 Herbert Jefferson Jr. promotes Airman magazine (actor from series Battleship Galactica). Presented by Your Air Force. Credits. Military Technology; Aerospace Research; Science; Scientists; Physicist; Cold War; 1970s; 1980s; NOTE: Entire sold as one real.