Search Results

open access

[News Script: British Designer Sees Bomber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sir William Pharren, who visits the Convair plant in Fort Worth. He observes the company's newest jet bomber, the B-58.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Air Research Chief to Speak in Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Major General Floyd D. Wood, deputy commander for Air Research and Development, visiting Dallas for an address to the Lone Star Chapter of the American Ordnance Association.
Date: February 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: NTSC band flier to South Carolina]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the North Texas State College's band taking a three-day trip to Donaldson Air Force Base at Greenville, South Carolina for Armed Forces Day. The band was picked up by a C-124 Globemaster from South Carolina.
Date: May 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the weather radar pan at Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base and it's contributions to the aviation in the area. The story talks about the specifications of the machine and crew behind it's maintenance and function.
Date: June 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Deaf]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of young deaf flight students from a Dallas deaf pilot's academy visiting the Grand Prairie Naval Air Station.
Date: March 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Pilot escapes as jet smashed fence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Navy jet losing power on takeoff from Grand Prairie's Hensley Field, skidding across a road, and crashing into a fence. The jet didn't hit any cars and the pilot was uninjured.
Date: April 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Copter]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Bell Aircraft Corporation's Helicopter Plant manufacturing HSL-1 helicopters for the United States Navy.
Date: August 18, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Jet pilot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Air Force flight instructor from Chicago coming to Dallas for the Saturday Night for Christ Rally.
Date: July 4, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: 58-pilot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the pilot of a B-58 that crashed on takeoff recovering in the Carswell Air Force Base Hospital.
Date: September 17, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Mighty midget]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man with dwarfism, L.C. Neuhart, employed at the Convair aircraft assembly plant in Fort Worth.
Date: May 31, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Crash survivors back at Carswell]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return of survivors to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth after a plane crash in Labrador that claimed the lives of three airmen.
Date: February 17, 1953
Duration: 4 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: B-58]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's Convair plant being featured on NBC's Wide, Wide World and exhibiting the Air Force's new supersonic B-58 bomber on the show.
Date: February 3, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Operation gobbler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about combat readiness exercises for reservists in the form of a mock battle at the Dallas Naval Air Station.
Date: November 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Reservist injured in plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of an Air National Guard training plane at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie after the aircraft experienced engine trouble on takeoff. One of the two men in the plane is slightly injured after the plane struck the ground.
Date: December 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Gift hat travels by jet plane]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three veteran U.S. Navy pilots traveling to represent Dallas at the National Aircraft Show in Dayton, Ohio.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Chute shop]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a parachute packing and repair shop at Carswell Air Force Base. Various airmen are shown making, testing, and packing parachutes for future use.
Date: August 15, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

Investigation of Boundary-layer Control to Improve the Lift and Drag Characteristics of the NACA 65â‚‚-415 Airfoil Section with Double Slotted and Plain Flaps

Description: From summary: "A two-dimensional wind-tunnel investigation has been made of the relative effectiveness of two methods of boundary-layer control in increasing the maximum lift coefficient of an NACA 652-415 airfoil section."
Date: August 1950
Creator: Horton, Elmer A.; Racisz, Stanley Frank & Paradiso, Nicholas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

[News Script: Leaflets showered on cities of area]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign in North Texas by the Civil Air Patrol, dropping leaflets from airplanes over towns in the area soliciting donations for the Radio Free Europe project.
Date: February 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Uranium]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Utah uranium mining company owner, Burrell Tibbs, returning to Dallas to pick up a U.S. Army surplus plane he plans to use for scouting uranium ore deposits from the air.
Date: February 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen