fix this up here enjoy your little man let's go on down here we draw the coastline down through atlantic city on down here to wilmington myrtle beach on down the coast very crudely we're flying along out here somewhere we've got an on the radio station here in atlantic city we've got another one here at the foot and we've got another one down here at myrtle beach so we do know this station here and on our little dial window i showed you a minute ago it says that we bear from that station say three hundred degrees well we draw a line of three hundred degrees magnetic to bering right through that station which extends out here somewhere we are somewhere along that line but where ok so we tune in this next station down here and that one says in the little window that we have got a bearing of say two hundred sixty degrees so we draw a line through that station at two hundred sixty degrees true and where those two lines cross that is where we are right there a little snow a few hours have gone by and we are now approaching miami now we'll show you what takes place in our approach in our landing time for us to start a gradual descent well here we are right on schedule i hope you folks enjoyed this much as we did courses was purely strictly a routine flight with beautiful weather but maybe we've been able to show you some things you hadn't seen before but you know i'll bet you right now some of you are saying well sure this was nice it was lovely weather but what happens when the weather is bad well believe me it's still routine you see in the first place where the super economies do most of the flying the weather is always nice on top of all the bad weather usually it's only on approaches to our airports that weather becomes any problem and then not much longer is we have a half a mile of visibility and two hundred for the ceiling no problem it's all now these minimums are arbitrar up by the civil aeronautics administration in the interest of general safety actually we can land one of these airplanes when the minimum zero zero zero let me show you if we are flying an instrument where in the clouds it's one of those nights that the birds aren't even welcome we have been cleared to make an instrument approach we have been cleared to the outer marker this point we call the outer marker is located approximately five miles from the end of the runway a light flashes on the cockpit at the same time the a d f needle indicates the passage of the marker and we also get an audio signal at this point the glide path is intercept the glide path is a sloping radio beacon down which the aircraft should make its descent to the runway and is indicated by the horizontal needle when the needle is centered the aircraft is on the glide if the needle moves above said the aircraft is low and must climb back to the pat if the needle is below center we are high on the glide this is a big help in itself but in addition to the list the instrument landing system we have g approaching the middle marker column of lights in here shows the approach to the end of the airport runway each bar of light is one hundred feet apart and the ball of light traveling away from us is such a high rate of speed is leading us right to the approach into the runway itself the green lights mark the start of the runway and the border lights on each side stretching out into the distance line a mile and a half of their speed just waiting for us to land  so you see it really isn't too difficult actually we use these landing aids every day in good weather and there to keep in practice and practically all of the airports that we use are equipped with a thing to remember is that it's all figured out nothing is guesswork it's still routine and i'm going to show you the most amazing demonstration of power in an airplane you've ever seen let's go back up sta along just as steady as you like only a constellation well we all have our dreams i guess i never did aspire to hold an airline but i always wanted an airplane of my own even when i was a kid i've got two of them now a d c three in the navy on and there are thousands of privately owned airplanes all over america today this is the little airport landing strip that i use when i fly home to virginia that's my navy on coming in there a single engine plane we can go almost anywhere and it has all the technical facilities and instruments that the big planes ha and i have a d c three that's my air force the least old things they're cracked up to be as a matter of fact it's so quiet so vibration let the to right behind one of them is a real comfort we are hoping someday soon that our commercial transport will be jet propelled you see a jet engine has no propeller the air is drawn in through the intake just forward of the wings compress and mixed with burning fuels to produce a this is my friend tommy daniels a member of our air forces for twelve years tommy is one of the thousands of fine young men who are making a career out of the air force taking advantage of the wonderful training they receive how do you like it tommy it couldn't be better mr godfrey it's really wonderful now i'm going to have the pleasure of flying with tommy today and some very exciting seeds so tommy what are we going to do well mr godfrey i'd like to take you through some follow ups to show you just what this airplane is designed to do in climbing to altitude rapidly i'm sure you'll enjoy it but it's just routine flying to us we do it every day now before we take off i would like to have your friends take a look at the afterburner in the tail section that gives this airplane this terrific wallop ok tommy will do it this lockheed starfire is an all weather air force interceptor she was designed especially to get off the ground quickly and claim to outfit so very quickly in the hope of being able to intercept and stop any enemy bombers that might come over this way to help her get up there quickly she was designed with this  burner in the tail section which is why this tail section is so much bigger than any other jet you've probably seen seen as a top celery engine back in here that uses exhaust gases as they pass through and re burdened with greater efficiency giving additional thrust so the engines that really is something to watch and get off quickly and boy oh boy i want to show you what i mean so we're to fly by first on the regular jets and so you can see and hear how it performs and then we're going to fly by with the afterburner on and you'll hear well you'll see for yourself just what other just watch and i'll show you are easy it is to penetrate the sound barrier with us our plans i was in with tony on this flight but we have a camera specially rigged on the tail to give you a close up view of what happens when you break the sound barrier let me tell you what to watch for first notice the deep color of the sky how much darker it is at forty five thousand feet where tony will start is done you're not only far above the clouds but also above the haze and dust of the lower atmosphere you are looking at the have just seen some very spectacular flying but the point i'd like to make to your is this that a spectacular as it looks it's not fool hardy not without purpose this airplane was built to take that kind of history i'll say it was arthur you know even when you're flying faster than the speed of sound this business of flying in our air forces is carefully figured out to the last the we take nothing but calculated risk calculated you know our equipment is the very best it's built supply you wouldn't make dives and pullouts like that with a transport plane that wasn't built to do that this kind of an airplane was why we were climbing up out of that dive there at the rate of about forty five thousand feet a minute for a few seconds even our big bombers the b fifty two the b forty seven they fly so fast yet they're built to fly strong and them all the bugs been worked out of them so that really it isn't something spectacular this business appliance so fast it's done every day by personnel it's trained very carefully by men who are competent to train the youngsters coming your son joins the air force or the naval air service never fear but what he'll get the very best possible instruction that every precaution will be made to look out for his safety sure there's danger too and there's danger to crossing the street it takes a special breed it can't supply these things this just can't be done by any that's why all the men you know pilots are such wonderful young men you're young fellas looking for adventure looking for real life something you love every minute of it you go and see the nearest air force recruiting offices or the nearest naval officer procurement station or the nearest air station someplace talk to him about it it's a wonderful life you love the years that you spend there and you will use the experience all the rest of your day joint we need you so now let's get back to the middle knows most about where air transportation is going  story pretty good up to now i think what would you say we can look forward to the next well either you've been talking about jazz you know it won't be long until the flying from new york to miami in a matter of two  san francisco and five to london in five to five and a half hours and that altitude some thirty five thousand feet to forty five thousand feet in fact will be landing and taking off in most any kind of coming in from all the surrounding communities we're going to make flying better and faster we're going to make flying available to still more people well rick it's been a lot of fun a rare privilege and a great honor to do