N.E.A.C. Digest Northeast Air Command, Film Report #3 Pt. 1 of 2
A 1366th Photographic Flight Production The Northeast Air Command Presents
Aerial over rocky ice covered mountains, large bay or ?? Coastline, long smooth snow-covered glaciers. Mountain peaks, ice & frozen lake. Greenland ice cap.
15:03:06 Cliffs of Newfoundland. Aerial views of Greenland. Ice floes & ice bergs. LS of arctic.
15:04:36 Ice calving or crumbling; large waves from glacier ice breaking into sea.
15:05:24 NEAC Rocket Meet Thule AFB preparations w/ crewmen loading 2.75 rockets into F-89D wingtip firing pod. MCU of pod partially loaded; pushing in w/ rod. Pilot boarding plane, CU putting on helmet. F-89D fighter jet interceptor taking off away from camera. Air to air planes in flight, tow target over Baffin Bay rocket range. Target panel seen in flight. Aircraft landing.
15:08:44 Resupply of Nord Ext sign: “Thule Air Base Greenland Base Operations, 25 ft.”. Loading C-54 transport airplane w/ gas from truck loaded into installed tank in plane. Forklift driver moving crates of explosives & loading onto plane. Motors starting, snow & rock beyond. Aircraft taking off past camera; Int. cockpit, view thru window of propeller turning. AVs snow capped mountains & ice. Aircraft landing at Nord weather station. Ext. huts, antennas, dogs by huts & aerials of Nord. Huskie dog team. Men unloading supplies onto trucks. Fuel pumped from aircraft into storage tanks. Sunset transport plane taxiing.
Weather, Ecology, Global Warming; Extreme Cold Temperature; 1950s; Supplies; Cold War Propaganda; Cold War;
Note: Northeast Air Command was dissolved, 01Apr57;
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N.E.A.C. Digest Northeast Air Command, Film Report #3 Pt. 1 of 2 A 1366th Photographic Flight Production The Northeast Air Command Presents Aerial over rocky ice covered mountains, large bay or ?? Coastline, long smooth snow-covered glaciers. Mountain peaks, ice & frozen lake. Greenland ice cap. 15:03:06 Cliffs of Newfoundland. Aerial views of Greenland. Ice floes & ice bergs. LS of arctic. 15:04:36 Ice calving or crumbling; large waves from glacier ice breaking into sea. 15:05:24 NEAC Rocket Meet Thule AFB preparations w/ crewmen loading 2.75 rockets into F-89D wingtip firing pod. MCU of pod partially loaded; pushing in w/ rod. Pilot boarding plane, CU putting on helmet. F-89D fighter jet interceptor taking off away from camera. Air to air planes in flight, tow target over Baffin Bay rocket range. Target panel seen in flight. Aircraft landing. 15:08:44 Resupply of Nord Ext sign: “Thule Air Base Greenland Base Operations, 25 ft.”. Loading C-54 transport airplane w/ gas from truck loaded into installed tank in plane. Forklift driver moving crates of explosives & loading onto plane. Motors starting, snow & rock beyond. Aircraft taking off past camera; Int. cockpit, view thru window of propeller turning. AVs snow capped mountains & ice. Aircraft landing at Nord weather station. Ext. huts, antennas, dogs by huts & aerials of Nord. Huskie dog team. Men unloading supplies onto trucks. Fuel pumped from aircraft into storage tanks. Sunset transport plane taxiing. Weather, Ecology, Global Warming; Extreme Cold Temperature; 1950s; Supplies; Cold War Propaganda; Cold War; Note: Northeast Air Command was dissolved, 01Apr57;