Aerospace Defense Command News Film Boeing Ec-137D Sentry Awacs F-106 Delta Dart 69904 (1972)
1972 · Short film · 8 min
Synopsis
In this U.S. Air Force Aerospace Defense Command News Digest (No. 91), likely from 1972, viewers see the tests conducted on a Boeing EC-137D Sentry (later named the Boeing E-3 Sentry) as part of the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program. The film opens footage of an AWACS ceremony in Seattle, where Brigadier General Kendall Russell and Boeing Program Manager Mark Miller speak to an audience about the AWACS tests of the aircraft, known as the Brassboard program. An EC-137D taxis out of a hanger and takes off. The ship flies through the air (01:30). Lt. Col. Robert B. Mitchell speaks to the camera about testing the aircraft. Men monitor radar screens in a control room (02:14). Footage shows the plane taking off from a runway, then the control room of the 25th Air Division’s SAGE Facility at McChord Air Force Base, WA. One of the ADC’s Convair F-106 Delta Darts takes off from a runway during the tests. A member of the 25th Air Division monitors a computer (04:01). Test engineers monitor tracking screens inside one of the EC-137Ds during an in-flight test (04:35). The large aircraft taxis at a runway in Colorado Springs, CO (05:10). Viewers see a design review meeting of operational command members for the AWACS program. An EC-137D starts to taxi on the snowy runway in Colorado (07:10); then it takes off into the sunny sky, concluding the film. An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar picket system designed to detect aircraft, ships…
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- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1972
- Aerospace
- Defense Command
- Boeing EC-137D
- Sentry AWACS
- F-16
- Stock Footage
