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Air Force Now (Air Force Aid Society; Tomorrow’s Air Force w/ future technology)

Reel Number: 220422-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1981

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 16:36:05

TC Ends: 16:54:08

Duration: 00:18:03

Air Force Now (Air Force Aid Society; Tomorrow’s Air Force w/ future technology) CU hand holding papers - bills. VO “If the house doesn’t sell soon, & the bills keep coming in, I don’t know what I’m going to do.” Blonde mother & daughter walk by lake. “I sure wish daddy were here”. 16:36:36 Blonde enters Air Force Assistance Fund office XCU pendulum of ticking clock. VO says her loan has been approved. Mother & child by lake at sunset hand in hand. CU Handshake. 16:37:38 Mostly Stills: old people - CU funds application - Black airman packing suitcase - logo AFAS (Air Force Aid Society). Entrance Air Force Village, home for retired airmen and families. Exercise class; Airman kisses old lady. 16:38:50 Biplane in sunset. Designer’s sketch of Wright brothers plane. Wright Borthers flight. 1920s early planes. Fighters. 1941 Pearl Harbour & various WWII planes aerial dogfights w/ Japanese planes. 16:39:57 First jet plane; X-15 in MCU & dropped from mother plane. Various aircraft models. F-16 & other planes in flight rolling, diving. F-16 on ground. ?? Dougherty in plane talks to camera (SOF). 16:41:24 Drawn models of future aircrafts & Titles: Air Force Now - Tomorrow’s Air Force. 16:42:01 Dougherty beside HIMAT: Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology developed w/ NASA. Hanging beneath B-52; dropped & flown by remote control from ground. Other new planes shown; one w/ pivotal wing. Officer describes innovations, winglets, conards, graphite epoxy skin. HIMAT in flight. Digital control systems shown. Talks re stealth technology. Futuristic illustrated drawings. 16:44:58 Pilots around WWI biplane cockpit; WWII P-51 Mustang cockpit control & 1980s F-15 Eagle cockpit w/ hundreds of controls. Tomorrow’s computerised controls; computerised map - early CGI. Infra-red image. for night & bad weather. Computer graphics, Pictorial Format Program. Future helmet visor w/ display & CGI air battle shown. Rockets fired from fighter plane. 16:47:49 Kids play video games; Space Invaders. 16:48:17 Flight simulator w/ computer graphics seen from outside & inside. Mock air battle. Pilots to briefing room. GOOD. Montage: plane firing rockets, dropping drone (?), control room, computer graphics, video games, starry sky, various weapons tested - 1980s vision of future & technology. 16:51:12 Space shuttle rocket launch; separation. Shuttle Columbia in space. Astronauts inside spacecraft - zero gravity. Animation satellites & space station of the future. Sunset with biplanes. Presented by... Military Technology; Promotional Film; Commercial; Military Charity;

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