Radical Plane Tested (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1965)

Description

The original release sheet reads: RADICAL PLANE TESTED What may prove to be the most versatile airplane ever designed goes aloft at Fort Worth for the first test of its folding wings. The F-111 has wings that are set at a conventional angle at takeoff and landing. While in high altitude flight the pilot sweeps them back and the plane can zoom at three times the speed of sound. SAN FRANCISCO HOUSES COLLAPSE A group of houses on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill literally sit on the brink of disaster for days before they slide into the street. Undermined by an excavation for a new building and heavy rains, the apartment buildings were emptied before the slide. MOVIE SMASHES BOX OFFICE RECORDS If you want to look up anybody in New York try the Radio City Music Hall first. Crowds have been storming the box-office to see Cary Grant in "Father Goose" and two ticket buyers, Mary Lynch and Jack Cassidy, sent the Music Hall to a new weeks' record - more than $240,000. SPRING HATS FOR MILADY Things are already blossoming on the hat racks for Spring. The gals can let their imaginations run wild - as they usually do. Everything is here from oversized brims to flowered hoods...all in all there is a hatful of dreams in milady's future. JOCKEY BEATS DEATH IN 2-HORSE CRASH Walter Blum, the National Riding Champion, is recuperating from a brush with death. In a Santa Anita feature, his horse breaks a leg and a following horse crashes into the rider. Walter Blum tells the harrowing story against a pictorial record of the race.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library