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Aviation News (Unid. Airplane Crash Site; Aviation Displace w/ Whittle WIX engine)

Reel Number: 221460-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1949

Country: USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 06:16:38

TC Ends: 06:17:45

Duration: 00:01:07

Title: Aviation News (Unid. Airplane Crash Site; Aviation Displace w/ Whittle WIX engine) 06:16:41 Airplane wreckage of large plane in field w/ foam over badly burned fuselage. Policeman looking at motors. Tail w/ American flag. 06:17:10 Man interviewing bandaged man in hospital bed. Swish pan... 06:17:22 Man at microphone in front of XP-80 jet airplane (Lulu Belle, first flown 08Jan44); Wright brothers plane hanging from ceiling. Audience applauding. Men standing beside large engine. Three men toast. CU sign: W.I.X. Gas Turbine aeroengine. October 1949; Smithsonian Museum Exhibit (?);

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