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Air Force Now - Aircraft Modification - 49 / 50th Test Wing

Reel Number: 220346-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: Dayton, Ohio,Wright Patterson AFB

TC Begins: 10:19:14

TC Ends: 10:23:22

Duration: 00:04:08

Air Force Now - Aircraft Modification - 49 / 50th Test Wing 10:19:36 Split screen odd planes & early attempts at flight - variety of strange looking test planes in flight. 10:20:13 Early interior factory (ca 20’s or 30’s - lathes, milling machines etc. on large factory floor. Modification Center at AFB which houses 25 different trades. Engineering, design, pouring liquid metal, drilling, grinding etc. Split screen modified aircraft. 10:21:07 Modified C-135 in flight. Interior of aircraft crammed w SATCOM scientists & technicians. Test director of satellite communications talks to camera - men using computers. 10:21:53 ARIA, advanced range instrumentation aircraft, in flight. Split screen showing interiors w/ technicians working on computers etc. tracking returning spacecraft. Pilot, Capt. Skip Dailey, in cockpit talking to camera. Plane landing toward & over camera. 1970s;

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