# Supersonic Thunderbirds

National Archives and Records Administration Supersonic Thunderbirds Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - ) SUPERSONIC THUNDERBIRDS, NELLIS AFB, NEVADA AND VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA, 26 FEBRUARY - 16 MARCH 1959, 02/26/1959 - 03/16/1959. ARC Identifier 67591 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-27272. Summary: Coverage of the USAF Thunderbirds in F-100's doing aero-acrobatics over Lake Meade and Mt. Charleston, Nevada; also control tower operations at Van Nuys, California. SLATE: CAMERAMAN: HATCH. 4' ACU from camera in plane in aircraft doing a 360-degree turn -- camera is turned on its side in relation to the pilot. 102' AMLS of snow-covered mountain. 120' CU instrument panel and stick of F-100 in flight. 141' SLATE: CAMERAMAN: HATCH. 143' AMLS F-100 doing outside loop (sound track area at right of frame). 163' AMS F-100 doing outside loop taken from the slot position of formation (sound track area at right of frame). 235' AMS F-100 doing outside loop (sound track area at right of frame). 294' CU of an elderly prospector working on a wagon -- he looks up at the Thunderbirds flying overhead. 359' MS Thunderbird F-100 landing at Nellis AFB. 407' MCU elderly prospector with donkey looking up at Thunderbirds flying overhead. 465' MLS Thunderbird F-100 landing with drag chute. 568' AMCU Thunderbirds flying in formation. 645' ALS Thunderbirds making a crisscross after bomb-burst. 668' LS Thunderbirds in formation and making low passes singly. 741' ALS & AMLS…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1959
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.67591)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.