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Navy Screen Highlights 1961
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keywords: nasa, mercury space project, project strato-lab, bendix trophy, f-4b phantom ii fighter bomber, uss kitty hawk, uss bainbridge, seato, pony express exercise, dash drone helicopter, navy skydiving team chuting stars, skyhook retrieval system, pilot rescue
Synopsis: NASA - Mercury Space Project, Bendix Trophy Speed Records, USS Kitty Hawk & USS Bainbridge Enter Service, SEATO Pony Express Exercise, DASH Drone Helicopter, Navy Chuting Stars Skydiving Team, Skyhook Aerial Retrieval...(read more)
- Date: 1961
- Duration: 00:14:00
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, North Borneo
NASA - Mercury Space Project
Test flight of the first manned spacecraft Mercury-Redstone 3 or Freedom 7 of the Project Mercury led by the newly created space agency NASA. Scenes at Cape Canaveral of the launching of the first American into space, showing astronaut Alan B. Shepherd, Jr., Commander, United States Navy, boarding the space capsule; the liftoff and images of face of Commander Shepherd while in flight; the recovery from the Atlantic by a Marine HUS-1 Sikorsky helicopter and Commander Shepherd jumping out of the helicopter onto deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39).
Project Strato-Lab. Scenes of the first manned balloon flight from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, USS Antietam (CVS-36) in the Gulf of Mexico, carrying two Navy men into space for test of the effects of space on man; the first ascension of the "Strato Lab" series that sets a new altitude record for manned balloon flight.
Bendix Trophy Speed Records
Three McDonnell Douglas F4H-1 (F-4B) Phantom II aircraft taking off from Ontario, California en route to New York competing in the Bendix Trophy race, refueling mid air and landing at Naval Air Station New York, breaking the transcontinental speed record; the pilot Lieutenant Dick Gordon and Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Lieutenant Junior Grade Bobby Young receive congratulations from Secretary of Navy John B. Connally.
A Navy Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King helicopter takes off from Windsor Locks, Connecticut setting a new helicopter speed record.
USS Kitty Hawk & USS Bainbridge Enter Service
The Commissioning ceremony of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke giving the address.
The christening of the nuclear powered guided missile frigate USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) at the Bethlehem Steel Co. Quincy Yard in Quincy, Massachusetts.
SEATO Pony Express Exercise
Aerial views of a task force underway in the South China Sea during exercise "Pony Express" held by 8 SEATO countries; British Commandos take off from aircraft carrier deck in Royal Navy Westland Whirlwind HAS-7 helicopters and land in a field in North Borneo during a vertical envelopment exercise. A signalman operates a signal light. Amphibious assault vehicles (LVTPs) underway, mechanized landing crafts (LCMs) landing SEATO troops on a beach with troops advancing through a field.
DASH Drone Helicopter, Navy Chuting Stars Skydiving Team, Skyhook Aerial Retrieval
Crewman operating a Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter from the helicopter deck of the destroyer USS Hazlewood (DD-531) underway at sea, and the drone unleashing a homing torpedo.
Navy skydiving parachute team called the "Chuting Stars" parachuting from a P5M-1 aircraft over El Centro, California.
Skyhook aerial retrieval system. P2V aircraft using the "sky hook" retrieval system to rescue a man from a rubber lifeboat at sea.
