Air Force Now (Women AF Pilots; Metric System; Computers)

Air Force Now (Women AF Pilots; Metric System; Computers) Woman pilot, Cathy Lassar, playfully grabbed & thrown into pool by a dozen male & female officers She announces AFN. Title Sequence. Lassar re being one of 10 first women to pilot T-38. 23:14:43 WWII women pilots training WASPS, pilots. 23:14:59 1970s Woman navigator trainee. Woman & man into fighter T-38 plane. Mixed classroom. V/O re training being same & women doing well. Callisthenics. Running. Cathy re having to be better than good. 23:17:13 Pilot instructor gives positive assessment of a woman pilot. Woman out of plane. Cathy at desk briefed by officer; studying at home. Row of planes on airfield at sunset; takeoff & fly in formation (GOOD). 23:20:02 USA Joins Metric System. Cathy Lassar holding bag of groceries w/ CUs products: soda bottle, Purex detergent, Ocean Spray fruit juice, Kraft jelly, C&H sugar, Kellogg’s cereal. Blonde weather forecast presenter. CUs metric sockets in package on shop shelf. Car dashboard. World map, countries NOT using metric system. USAF officers to camera explain how they got used to metric system while posted in Europe. 23:21:41 Highway & POV from car on European road w/ road signs. 23:21:52 Working on car motor. Engineers in warehouse assembling plane engine. Plane in flight. American football game (good play). Map of world, only countries out of metric system once USA has joined. 23:22:40 Recruitment Assistance Program. Black officer in front of mailbox talks to camera - re helping the USAF by encouraging acquaintances to join the Air Force. 23:23:35 Woman officer Cathy Lassar presents segment on computers. Typing at computer; data storage tapes on shelves & played. Air Force Logo drawn on early computer. 1947: World’s first electronic digital computer w/ men at massive early computers. Computers w/ radar-like screens. Second generation transistor computer. 1970s integrated circuit computers. Personal computers. Maxi-computers. 23:25:39 Title: Office of Air Force Accounting and Finance Center, Denver. Workers at computers. CU Pause / Start buttons. Flashing light indicators. Data storage tape. CU Government checks printed by machine. Filing. CU computer lights. 23:26:38 Ext. & title: North American Air Defense Command, NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Aerial mountain, car park & entrance tunnel. Explains functioning of complex - Earth from space. Radar in space (animation) & on ground. Computers at NORAD Cheyenne complex. Lights on screens. Map of world on computer. Officers on phone. 23:27:22 Strategic Air Command (SAC) Computer switchboard. Video displays. High-ceilinged computer room w/ giant screens. Aircrafts in flight. Flashing buttons. Microproccessor, microchips. 23:28:13 AF Avionic Laboratory research on computers. Microscopes Indicator light buttons “gunfire”, “missile step” & “dogfight”. Montage incl. Plane engine, construction, loading ammunition, data storage tape, liquid crystal display, man walking on electricity lines, big computer, rocket. The End. Technology; Calculators; Main Frames;