NASA Boeing 747SP Sofia N747NA Aircraft and Operational Visual History
The Boeing 747SP Special Performance N747SP is a join operation between NASA and DLR the German Space agency and the aircraft is named SOFIA as the aircraft is an airborne “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy” platform. The former Pan Am then United 747SP underwent major modifications in the early 2000s which included the addition of …Read more »
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 and VC10 Promotional movies
This airline publicity movie contains two parts, and dates from the mid 1960s with the first part featuring the British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707, and the second part featuring the Vickers VC-10. The films do not tell much of the story or contain much narration as they are essentially visual feasts that celebrate the …Read more »
Westover Air Force Base Airshow 1992 USAF C-130 C-5 U-2
This one hour publicity film was produced by the US Air Force to document the airshow that was staged at Westover Air Force Base in 1992. The film features an excellent selection of warbids, the Golden Knights Fokker F27 parachute team, the Westover AFB (Maine) based C-5A Galaxy, a USAF U-2 spy plane, C-130, B-52, …Read more »
Battle of Khe Sanh Vietnam War The Air Power
This film was made by the US Department of Defence in 1968 to tell the story of the Battle of Khe Sanh. A force of some 6,000 US Marines and SOuth Vietnamese Rangers battled North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces number some 20,000 men during January and February, 1968. US aircraft including F-4s, F-100s and F-105s, …Read more »
Twenty Five Hour Day Vietnam War Documentary Fairchild F-105 Thunderchief Operations
“A Story of Air Force F-105s” this is a 26 minute publicity film produced by Fairchild-Hiller / Republic Aviation, makers of the F-105 Thunderchief from 1967. The film opens with US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara explains that petroleum imports into 1966 increased between 50 and 70 percent over 1965, as a requirement to literally …Read more »
US Air Force Air Power in Vietnam Operational Review 1966
This US Air Force publicity film dates from 1966. It presents an overview of the entire Air Force mission during the then raging Vietnam War. We are shown the mission strategic planning centre at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, where the entire Pacific theatre is managed from during times of war and peace. The …Read more »
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