Reel Number: 221456-17
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1949
Country: USA
Location: DC,Washington
TC Begins: 02:26:41
TC Ends: 02:28:12
Duration: 00:01:31
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Title: Aviation News 02:26:45 CU Nose art: Martin XB-51. MS plane on runway w/ pilot in cockpit. 02:26:52 Head-on view tractor pulling plane. Men looking; loading folded drag parachute into tail & closing panel. MCU taxiing, turning; ls taking off w/ JATO & steam?. Landing & parachute deploying. Military Experimental Bomber Testing; Cold War; NOTE: First flew on 28Oct49. XB-51 submitted in 1950 to AF but lost to English Electic Canberra which was renamed B-57A.