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DFD - Disc Flight Development - Avrocar Progress Report No. 7 (Phase I, Part II, 03Mar60)

Reel Number: H2186-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1960

Country: Canada,United Kingdom,USA

Location: dayton,Malton,Ohio,Ontario,Wright Paterson Field

TC Begins: 02:31:09

TC Ends: 02:49:35

Duration: 00:18:26

Titles. 02:31:27 Scale model of aircraft demonstrating air flow by use of water vapor while raising & lowering against surface & tilting. 02:33:28 MCU pouring ?? into form. Two arc sections shown drying or ?? 02:33:55 Men working under Avrocar aircraft mounted under jig outside factory; showing movement of control nozzle ring using ribbons. 02:34:44 Aircraft in tethered flight on ramp blowing thick ice loose from pavement. 02:35:42 Avrocar in free flight across ice covered pavement, LS & MS turning, 02:36:38 AVrocar tested while hanging from supports or jig. 02:37:21 Aircraft on stand, w/ vertical stabilizer; hovering during tethered flight tests on ramp. 02;38:12 Aircraft w/o vertical stabilizer in tethered flight. 02:38:30 In free-flight w/ vertical stabilizer. 02:39:26 In free-flight w/ co-pilot. GOOD. 02:42:46 Worker riveting skin section to underside of aircraft inside factory. 02:43:18 Aircraft hovering in tethered flight directly in front of camera. 02:43:44 Avrocar in free-flight 02:44:54 High angle of assembly in hanger; beneath in hanger. 02:45:19 Avrocar in tethered flight 02:45:34 In free flight slowly moving w/ men following on foot. LS towards & up to camera; turning & away - repeating. GOOD. 02:49:30 End credits. Space Age Craft; Flying Saucer; UFOs; Unidentified Flying Objects; Engineering; Wacky Inventions; Oddities. 1950s; Color; Disc Flight; Experimental Aircraft Testing; Aviation; NOTE: Sell any continuous ten minutes at per reel rate. NOTE: Disc Flight research started in 1952 per sound track.

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