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Aviation - Color 1940s - 1950s: NACA Experimental Rocket Aircraft & Flights

Reel Number: 250211-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940s,1950s

Country: USA

Location: California,Edwards AFB

TC Begins: 18:00:00

TC Ends: 18:12:51

Duration: 00:12:51

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Aviation - Color 1940s - 1950s: NACA Experimental Rocket Aircraft & FlightsTitle: X-1 Servicing Operation. MS & MCU Men fueling aircraft. 18:00:18 Title: X-1 Mating Operation on B-29; B-29 Taxi & Takeoff. 18:00:22 Tractor pulling B-29 over X-1 in pit, men guiding & attaching. Tractor pushing plane back. 18:00:52 B-29 taxiing; past low-level after take-off. 18:01:19 Title: X-1 Drop at 35,000 Feet. Aerial side view l. to r. Lower view, CU & MS; dropping & beginning acceleration. 18:01:54 Title: L-R: D-558 II, D-558 Phase I, X-5, X-1, XF-92, X-4. Very high angle / VHA of six planes parked & moving on tarmac in front of large hanger. Slow pan of stationary aircraft. 18:02:27 Title: XF-92. Tractor pulling Convair Prototype Delta Wing Dart no 6682 aircraft out of hanger. CU from rear, parked. In flight from side & above. 18:02:53 Title: X-3. Men under nose of supersonic Douglas X-3 Stiletto. Others working on / servicing. MLS of full plane parked on dry desert lake bed. Taking off l. to r. past camera. Side view, beneath, side view in flight. GOOD 18:03:41 Title: X-5. Taking off l. to r. & wheels up. Aerial from slightly above. Low pass over field. All l. to r. 18:04:05 Title: D-558 Phase II Flight Preparation. B-29 taxiing w/ Skyrocket aircraft underneath, low past camera after take-off. Interior w/ technician raising cockpit cover & Skyrocket pilot lowering himself into cockpit & beginning to attach straps. Lower side view of Skyrocket dropping away; seen against black sky. Two men tracking w/ telescope viewer. Plane in flight. Landing on dry lake bed seen from chase plane. Pilot out & Ford car alongside. 18:05:21 Title: X1-A Dropped from B-29. View from below & rear, moving forward. plane dropped & motor igniting. Landing on lake bed, rolling to stop; pilot climbing out. 18:06:03 Title: X-1E Engine Run and Mating in Flight onto B-29. Men plugging ears as no 6063 motor runs. B-29 w/ X-1E beneath taxiing MCU past; in air after take off. Aerial from below of X-1E w/ engine started, dropping & falling away. 18:07:00 Black. 18:07:06 NACA planes on display, similar to 18:01:54 - 18:02:27 but more w/ tracking shots past parked planes. 18:11:43 LS across dry lake of landing Skyrocket D-558-2 #3, NACA-145 & onto tarmac. Flight Testing; Test Pilots; Dangers; Speed; National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Good color & coverage. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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