Airborne Alert 1959 Part One

Please Comment ; Rate und Subscribe. Have a nice watching. Air Force Film Report 33, "Operation Headstart", 1959, produced by Air Photographic and Charting Service (component of Military Air Transport Service) Air Force Index Card Source: National Archives Motion Pictures Unit, Record Group 342 "Project Headstart" (1959), original classification status unknown, which depicts SAC's first airborne alert test by bombers operating out of Loring Air Force Base (Maine) in the fall of 1959. Designed to keep nuclear-armed bombers in the air so they could head towards Soviet targets at a moment's notice, airborne alert was an accident waiting to happen. In 1966 and 1968 crashes of nuclear-armed B-52s in Spain and Greenland caused international incidents.