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1951-1952 - Aircraft & Rocket Firings, Aug51-Nov52 Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 250016-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1952

Country: USA

Location: California,Edwards AFB

TC Begins: 06:45:15

TC Ends: 06:57:47

Duration: 00:12:32

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1951-1952 - Color, USAF: Aircraft Tests & Bendix Race Related (17Aug51). Two men checking F94C tail section, second F-94C and a B-47 visible behind. 06:45:40 MS & CUs Two men install parachute in tail of F94C. 06:46:59 LS down flight line, F-84E's, F-84F's, F-86D & F-102 visible. Navy F3D, D558-2 (Skyrocket), X4, Bell X-1 & F-94C. Aircraft in second row: B-45 & C-97. (Very brief to be useful for individual planes). 06:47:09 CU low angle of F86D making high speed run over camera. 06:48:14 Slate: Bendix Race, 17Aug51 Camera: Stoddard. Roll 1. MS pan to pilots walking to F86 and then walking away. Then three pilots talk in front of left wing of F86. Repeat of pilots walking to plane. MS pan to right of the F86. 06:50:15 MS pan left side of B45. Three pilots in Bendix Race walk past nose of B-45 & stand beside fuselage. 06:50:52 Slate: BENDIX RACE. 17Aug51. Pan from left engine cells to nose of B45. 06:51:11 Three pilots beside the B45, talking. 06:52:00 CU & MCU hold arm on landing gear of B29 on thrust stand.. 06:52:27 B-29 on thrust stand, No. l engine started, followed by No. 2 engine. Ground crewmen removing extinguisher as the engines are started. Lettering on side of B-29 BF-969. LS & MLS B-29 on thrust stand, all engines running. Nose of B-29; all engines running on thrust stand. 06:54:52 Pan to right to Navy XA3D landing left to right MS.. 06:55:58 Pan left w/ Maj. Charles Chuck Yeager walking towards camera & to F-89 FW 437, tail number 92437 ; signs form held by ground crewman. 06:56:25 Yeager climbs up fuselage of F-89, enters cockpit, stands & adjusts his parachute harness. 06:56:38 Pan right w/ F-89 taking off, from runway past camera. Pan right w/ F-89 making flyby past camera at low altitude. F-89 making landing on runway & taxiing away from camera. 1956; Cold War; USA Military Aviation; NOTE: XA3D maiden flight 28Oct52. B-45 was first operational jet bomber. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Good color. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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