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1956 Boeing Corporate Film: Jet Stratotanker 250202-06 | Footage Farm

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[Aviation - Color, 1956, Boeing Corporate Film:  Jet Stratotanker]
Rolling main titles, large hanger door opening & tractor / tug pulls first Boeing KC-135 out, 18Jul56, w/ workers watching.  
01:13:12  B-52 climbing after leaving runway r. to l., camera pans w/ the aircraft.  Aerial in flight.
01:13:45  Aerial of KC-97 w/ booom extened; seen from in tanker refueling F-84 fighter jet.  Camera in left side blister of KC-97 shows RB-45C refueling, breaking away. 
01:14:12  Aerial side-view of KC-97 refueling B-47 bomber.  low angle, KC-97 refueling B-47 (wheels down); & KC-97 refueling B-52 above cloud layer w/ landing gear down on B-52. 
01:14:37  CU from KC-97 boom operator's position, B-52 during refueling.
01:14:43  Boeing field, MS & LS 367-80 jet transport takes off on 15Jul54.  Renamed KC-135; MS testing refueling boom & maneuvers.
01:15:44  Camera in KC-135 boom operator's position shows B-52 coming into contact position w/ refueling boom.  Camera in pilot's compartment of B-52 shows KC-135 in fueling position.  KC-135 boom operator's view of B-52 refueling.  Boeing 367-80 landing.
01:16:22  Parts of fuselage moved to hanger for tests; various test equipment & portions of fuselage.
01:17:40  Manufacturing subcontractors & construction of assembly plant, men working on parts & moving large parts for assembly in Seattle by truck, railroad.  Joining parts in assembly line.  LS of assembly floor.
01:19:30  Large milling machines; working honeycomb material while frozen.  Fastening airplane skins on jigs.
01:20:19  Final assembly on tarmac, men working around & in it.
01:20:45  Cutaway illustration of plane showing tanks.  Construction on tail section.  Boom operator; men assembling boom.
01:21:49  Pilot & crew training at Boeing Training School for USAF & contractor personnel showing the KC-135 cockpit trainer & training aids, charts, parts.  Cockpit tests, wing spoiler testing, rudder & elevators. Jet engines shown which can be started without external equipment.  Installation of recorders.
01:24:37  30Aug56 Taxiing tests; POV from cockpit.  31Aug56  First KC-135 takeoff.  Aerial of gentle maneuvers:  rocking slowly right & left at approximately 10,000 feet w/ landing gears down.  CUs pilot operating controls.  KC-135 in stall tests over Seattle Bay area; cockpit shot, Mt Rainier in background.
01:26:35  Landing w/ KC-135 on final approach over Seattle warehouses; low over camera.
01:27:35  KC-135 taking off toward & past at the Renton Plant.  CU hands on controls.  Inflight checks of boom seen from boom operator's compartment & camera chase plane showing boom operator opening hydraulically actuated door, boom being lowered & extended; CU's azimuth & telescoping meters on operator control panel; a B-52 moving up, making contact, being refueled, & boom being disconnected from the B-52.  AV's B-52 in flight to the right below & behind the KC-135  - refueling boom is extended.  Both aircraft bank left & fly a normal turn above good cumulus clouds.
04:03:34  Title:  The End.
Cold War; 1950s; Instructional Film; Promotional Film; Educational Film; USAF: Strategic Air Command; 
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