KC135 Sets Record For Jet NonStop Refueled Flight, Various Locations Reel 1 · Part 1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RAD10-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 EXTENSION 75111 Release No. 67-58 Footage: 1550 unprocessed 12500 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: 50 1001 products TO; Release 8 April 1958 KC-135 SETS RECORD FOR JET NON-STOP, NON-REFUELED FLIGHT (Official Air Force footage released by Dept. of Defense) A U.S. Air Force KC-135 sets record for jet non-stop, non- refueled flight from Tokyo to the Azores, a distance of approxi- mately 10,388 miles. The Boeing strato tanker, a better than 600 mile per hour jet, powered by 4 Pratt and Whitney J-57 engines, took off from the Yokota Air Force Base northeast of Tokyo at 3:37, 7 April 1958 (Washington time) and touched down at 10:25, 8 April 1958. Piloting the "Jet Stream" is Brig. Gen. William W. Eubanks, Jrog Commander of the 93rd Bomber Wing, Castle Air Force Base. A second aircraft will attempt the flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Madrid, Spain. If successful this flight will establish a new world's straight line distance record. Sequences show: 1200 15000 unprocessed film. Two crews being briefed. KC-135, flown by Brig. Gen. Eubanks "landing at Yokata. KC-135 take-off. 2.William-N. Landing of KC-135 at Yokota, also fly-over and tail-away shot. KC-135 as it made two touch and go landings. Fly-over of KC-135 over Yokota Air Force Base. one 1001 processed film Animation of flight. 550 NOTE: 1600s handed out to Fox- U. in Washington for servicing both TV and theatrical pool members. Original footage not to be cut in any manner and it is to be returned to Army Pictorial th Center. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. 041454

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases