USAF Staff Film Report #9 Part 2
KC-135A Jet Tanker Program - Top Secret: MS KC-135A taxiing to the right Boeing 707 . MS camera pans right w/ takeoff of KC-135A VO gives dimensions, type of engines, thrust, speed, & amount of fuel transferable per minute. Good AVs KC-135A in flight. MS camera pans right w/ landing of KC-135A. VO gives total number of tankers ordered by the Air Force.
14:11:44 H-21 Helicopter Capability - Unclassified: MCU HP-21 helicopter takes off, hovers close to ground - ‘Rescue’ painted on side of copter. Rubber floats have been installed around the wheels and they are inflated while helicopter in the air. CU SV helicopter as it lands on water, then takes off from water. CU H-21 hovering close to ground - floats jettisoned. MS rescue hoist lifting cargo into helicopter. CU H-21 hovering close to ground - two fuel tanks attached to fuselage, then one of the tanks jettisoned. CU low angle Army model of the H-21 - cargo fastened to sling on helicopter. MS H-2l as it lifts 105mm Howitzer. MS low angle-- formation of H-21 helicopters quality poor.
14:14:07 Moby Dick High Altitude Wind Studies - Unclassified: CU plastic balloon removed from carton and placed in canvas-covered trailer used for launching balloon. CUs as Moby Dick balloon straightened out. Hoses connected to truck & balloon prior to inflating with helium. MS technicians carry out instruments and place them on trailer. CU truck as switches turned for inflation of balloon. CU gauge as it records pressure. CU instruments to be fastened to the balloon. CU package w/ ‘Notice to Finder: This equipment is not dangerous. It is the property of the USAF and was carried aloft by a large plastic balloon to obtain high altitude weather information’ - states that a $25 check will be mailed to the finder as soon as the addressee receives the box. Balloon is released from the trailer - camera pans with balloon as it ascends.
14:16:12 F-100A Flight Tests - Confidential: MS camera pan right as F-100A jet fighter takes off. CU fly-by to the right of the F-100A. MS F-100 making low pass over flight line. F-100A doing an uncontrolled snap roll. F-100A in flight - two other F-100As pull into the formation. MLS formation of four F-100As. CU formation of four F-100As flying right echelon. Medium dolly shot to the right with the landing of an F-100A - drag chute extended. CU tail section of the F-100A - shows increasing of the fin VO states that this modification stabilizes the control of the aircraft. F-100A doing a barrel roll.
Military Aviation. Cold War.
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USAF Staff Film Report #9 Part 2 KC-135A Jet Tanker Program - Top Secret: MS KC-135A taxiing to the right Boeing 707 . MS camera pans right w/ takeoff of KC-135A VO gives dimensions, type of engines, thrust, speed, & amount of fuel transferable per minute. Good AVs KC-135A in flight. MS camera pans right w/ landing of KC-135A. VO gives total number of tankers ordered by the Air Force. 14:11:44 H-21 Helicopter Capability - Unclassified: MCU HP-21 helicopter takes off, hovers close to ground - ‘Rescue’ painted on side of copter. Rubber floats have been installed around the wheels and they are inflated while helicopter in the air. CU SV helicopter as it lands on water, then takes off from water. CU H-21 hovering close to ground - floats jettisoned. MS rescue hoist lifting cargo into helicopter. CU H-21 hovering close to ground - two fuel tanks attached to fuselage, then one of the tanks jettisoned. CU low angle Army model of the H-21 - cargo fastened to sling on helicopter. MS H-2l as it lifts 105mm Howitzer. MS low angle-- formation of H-21 helicopters quality poor. 14:14:07 Moby Dick High Altitude Wind Studies - Unclassified: CU plastic balloon removed from carton and placed in canvas-covered trailer used for launching balloon. CUs as Moby Dick balloon straightened out. Hoses connected to truck & balloon prior to inflating with helium. MS technicians carry out instruments and place them on trailer. CU truck as switches turned for inflation of balloon. CU gauge as it records pressure. CU instruments to be fastened to the balloon. CU package w/ ‘Notice to Finder: This equipment is not dangerous. It is the property of the USAF and was carried aloft by a large plastic balloon to obtain high altitude weather information’ - states that a $25 check will be mailed to the finder as soon as the addressee receives the box. Balloon is released from the trailer - camera pans with balloon as it ascends. 14:16:12 F-100A Flight Tests - Confidential: MS camera pan right as F-100A jet fighter takes off. CU fly-by to the right of the F-100A. MS F-100 making low pass over flight line. F-100A doing an uncontrolled snap roll. F-100A in flight - two other F-100As pull into the formation. MLS formation of four F-100As. CU formation of four F-100As flying right echelon. Medium dolly shot to the right with the landing of an F-100A - drag chute extended. CU tail section of the F-100A - shows increasing of the fin VO states that this modification stabilizes the control of the aircraft. F-100A doing a barrel roll. Military Aviation. Cold War.