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"USAF News Review No. 3" is jam packed with USAF forces and munitions; it features a number of innovations underway in air force equipment and air crafts the early 1950's. This USAF promotional film includes a number of ADC (Air Data Computer) pilots from the California Air Force base situated in Oxnard. ADC pilots are capable of determining aircrafts altitude and air speed. The film also includes men of the 437 Fighter/Interceptor Squadron, the F-94 Starfire and the XC-99. It tours a number of air force bases; Moody Air Force Base located in Lowndes County, Georgia and the Joint Base in San Antonio. Moody AFB; opened in 1941, was named after the late major general George Putnam Moody; an army air craft test pilot who perished in May of 1941. 
Oxnard AFB; closed since January of 1970 has a brief but rich history. The base was established in 1942 at the start of the Second World War. During WW2, the 36th Training Wing supervised contractors training pilots at the airfield. In the 1950’s, it was home to the 354th fighter interceptor squadron and fielded the F-101 Voodoo interceptors.

0:00 The film opens with the USAF seal. The first segment features pilots honing their rocket skills (:28) at Moody AFB home to the fighting 437th fighter interceptor squadron (:33). Men of the squadron rise (:38) for annual rocket training exercise. Squadron members pull lethal 2.75 inch rockets for the bomb bay of the F94 Starfire (1:03). The pilot waves from the cockpit (1:10). The F-94 pushes off (1:23) for a runway take off (1:38). Bombs spill out (1:45). Controllers operate controls from the ground base (1:52); the radar screen traces planes to interception with planned targets. The target is sighted (2:00) and rounds are fired. The film goes to Missouri Whiteman Air Force Base (2:22) for a chart making class. Whiteman; originally opened in 1942 as Sedalia Glider Base. Technicians at the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center; ACIC (2:30) work to compile air facility data for pilots. This base was later renamed the DMA Aerospace Station following incorporation into the DMA. Close shots watch mountain ridges etched onto maps (2:51). Complex printing equipment (3:27) produces charts rapidly. A technician pulls completed charts from the rack (3:39). At the Air Force Flight Test Center in California; the Edwards AFB, (3:54) two hangars are prepared for transit across the Mojave Desert. The job required expansion into the desert wasteland (4:21) calling for a decision to either move the hangars or reconstruct them. A two billion dollar saving encouraged the decision to move the hangars.  The trans grid is pictured (4:27). The hangar pulls forward (4:55).  Air Force trainees in Texas swarm over the Joint Base in San Antonio (5:09). 60 acres of scale model planes (5:17). Troops man a gun turret in a sand bagged parking area (5:19). Student officers and NCO’s lead basic training; soldier's lay belly flat and squeeze off blank rounds (5:22). At the time about 81000 and 12000 student officers were undertaking the basic training course (6:20). The silver nosed F-84F (6:34) is used for several droppable wheel tests. Wheels run behind (6:43). Slow motion footage show auxiliary wheels dropping off after takeoff and bouncing the runway (6:53) for about a mile. Technicians fashion a small parachute into a standard wheel on the ground (7:05). Narration explains the droppable feature became necessary for retracting gear for modern thin winged air craft (7:17). The feature also enables weight saving, the F84 climbs to higher altitudes (7:24). Wheels are released and the parachute explodes (7:27) dropping to the dirt. The XC 99 (7:52) breaks records in the next segment. This was the cargo version of the B-36. The XC 99 was a prototype heavy cargo AC hitting top speeds of 300 mph. In 1950, it flew as part of Operation Elephant and saw much use during the Korean War.  First flight was 1937. Technicians perform preflight checks (8:02) within the massive craft. A portion of a cargo load is exampled (8:15). It broke 21 national records (8:22) as it lifted a payload weighing 100,400 lbs. It spins on roller skate landing gear (8:34). Shots follow from within the cockpit (8:52) and of the wing in flight. Wide shots of the massive craft (9:04) close the film. It was produced by the USAF (9:07).

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