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Post-WWII - Color, USA Aviation: XP-80 Development & Flight Tests; SeaStar L-245. 1940s & 1950s

Reel Number: 250155-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940s,1950s

Country: USA

Location: California,Muroc Airfield,Nevada,Skunk Works,Tonopah

TC Begins: 22:55:57

TC Ends: 23:11:16

Duration: 00:15:19

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWII - Color, USA Aviation: XP-80 Development & Flight Tests; SeaStar L-245 1940s & 1950s Very faded color (looks B/W) Men on shop floor talking of Skunk Works , working on XP-80 aircraft (Lulu-Belle ?). 22:56:36 Model spinning in wind tunnel 22:56:55 Men on ship floor wearing Lockheed coat; working on engines, cockpit. 22:57:56 LS truck, car & planes parked on edge of airstrip w/ men / engineers around F-80 jet fighter, men pull away starting motor, LS taking off from dry lake bed. Muroc Airfield, in flight, landing (color comes back). 23:00:49 Men working on finishing plane / XP-80, polishing nose, wings, etc. 23:01:03 Front view on tarmac in desert, side view, tail, angles. 23:01:42 Test pilot Tony Levier standing by cockpit, climbs in & shakes hands w/ designer Clarence / Kelly Johnson. 23:02:11 LS In flight. 23:02:16 F-80 No. 485140 past on runway. 23:02:31 Unmarked XP-80 (Lulu-belle) on desert tarmac taxiing; Tony Levier climbs out wearing parachute, talks & poses w/ 3 engineers . 23:03:20 MLS large group of men on tarmac w/ yellow buses in background. 23:03:27 T-33 parked; two test pilots into parachutes in front of plane 8358. Climb into T-33 & taking off past camera. NOTE: first flight was 22Mar48. 23:04:04 Tractor towing Lockheed Seastar, Model L-245 jet trainer known as T2V-1 or T-1 aka T-33B w/ wing tanks & streamline star on nose, CU air intake, wing flaps on wing number N125D. High angle / HA of cockpit. Men demonstrate crank opening of cockpit canopy; view of tail First flight 15Dec53. 23:05:49 Two test pilots into seats. CUs. Taxiing as men watch & taking off, wheels up. Aerials in air, lowering wheels; MCU above clouds w/ another plane alongside, view of wing flaps moving over mountains; view from below as plane does several barrel rolls while diving. Landing near residential area, parachute drag chute deployed. View of landing from ground w/ drag chute. 23:09:11 Taking off l. to r. Air to air of in flight. 23:10:00 CU nose of 8383 . 23:10:12 Nose of TR-644 / canopy raised; taking off past camera. Air to air in flight. CU in air of CR-528 Cold War; Aviation; Post-WW2; Oddities; Secret Aircraft Research; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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