Air Force Designs Tiny "Tom Thumb" Radio Tube, Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Armed Forces Day, Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York; New 60-Ton Navy Seaplane Passes Initial Flight Test, San Diego Bay, California Part 1

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трията 111 ADC 7960-1 ADC 7960 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 548' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 AIR FORCE DESIGNS TINY "TOM THUMB" RADIO TUBE Air Material Command Released 31 Mar 1950 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base DD Rel 22-50 Miss D O'Grady laboratory assistant, walks into scene, picks up normal size rube. CU, wartime size tube. CU, postwar tube adopted around 1946. The miniature tube is compared with the present-day tube. Then a CU of the "Tom Thumb" tube which is 1/90th the size of present-day tube. CU, girl's hand passing over "Tom Thumb" tube. (Tube is so sensitive that shadow from girl"s hand causes meter reading or action to take place) Miss O'Grady demonstrating use of the old-type and new-type sea rescue kits, the latter has been reduced to about one-third of the old in size and weight by use of miniature radio tubes. (NOTE: The new tube is called a "fieldistor." ARMED FORCES DAY Mitchell Field, LI 21 May 50 (Proj 13416) Shots of men parading on field MS , generals and others reviewing parade. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER , 35 11 35th Ave. LIC 1, NY FB/me Signal Corps 111 ADC 7967-2 ADC 7960 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 548' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMED FORCES DAY, (Cont) Mitchell Field, L I., (Cont) 21 May 1950 (Proj 13416) (Cont) Among them, according to caption, Maj Gen Glenn 0 Barcus, CO of First Air Forces & Staff. MS, Gen Barcus and unidentified woman looking at plaque. MS, Color Guard on parade field presenting arms. MS, Gen Barcus presenting award to Sgt Donnie Law for exceptional work during airlift. NEW 60-TON NAVY SEAPLANE PASSES INITIAL FLIGHT TEST San Diego Bay, Calif (DD Rel 33-50) 18 April 50 The 60-ton experimental seaplane built by Consolidated Vultee taxiing in the bay during its first test. FS, as the XP5Y-1 takes off from the water moving right to left. CU of the seaplane in flight moving right to left. Sky bg only (slight handling scratches.) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave , LIC 1, NY FB/me трията 111 ADC 7960-3 ADC 7960 SOURCE: AFCF Card 3 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 548 ea Silent NEW 60=TON NAVY SEAPLANE PASSES INITIAL FLIGHT TEST, (Cont) San Diego Bay, California, (Cont) 18 April 1950 (Cont) (DD. Rel 33-50) (Cont) MS, three sailots equipped with aerial cameras taking pictures of the seaplane. Seaplane moving on the waters of the bay after flight. (NOTE: XP5Y=1 is the first seaplane in this country to be powered by the Navy-pioneered turboprop engines.) RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/me

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities