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1955 - Color, USAF: F-102A Interceptors First Flight, Jun55

Reel Number: 250016-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955

Country: USA

Location: California,Edwards AFB,March Field,San Diego

TC Begins: 06:00:03

TC Ends: 06:11:33

Duration: 00:11:30

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1955 - Color, USAF: F-102A First Flight, Jun55 Titles. 06:00:26 Convair F102A, FC-791, tail no. 31791 taxiing past houses on San Diego hillside. 06:01:07 Cranes hoisting plane onto cradle onto flatbed trailer. High angle of truck & trailer pulling out & down highway behind escorting police & cars to March Field, Edwards AFB. 06:02:04 Sign: Welcome to the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB. Plane arriving past cactii / cactuses. 06:02:41 21Jun55 Unloading by crane, truck pulls out. Re-assemblying parts; MCUs. Nose boom w/ instruments attached. Plane pulled by tractor onto runway. 06:04:19 Engineers checking engine, etc. Men w/ fingers in ears. View from rear w/ afterburner igniting. 06:05:01 Control tower w/ controllers visible. 06:05:06 24-28Jun55 Pilot, Captain Donald Butterfield, walking to plane & into cockpit. Motion picture camera raised on hoist. In cockpit w/ engineer & test piilot Dick Johnson talking. Camera on high hoist. 06:05:47 Cockpit canopy lowered, plane taxiing. 06:06:26 CU control tower & signal light flashing. LS F-102A aka Deuce / Delta Dagger beginning take-off run, dust, lifting off & wheels raised; chase plane follows. 06:07:03 Air to air of plane at high altitude. Man beside station wagon talking into microphone. CU of plane banking & from various angles. Men on ground watching. View of F102A from above desert airstrip. Men watching, camera on ground. View of landing approach by gun camera mounted on tail fin. Landing from side & from onboard camera. 06:09:08 Drag parachute deployed, nose dropping to runway. Plane taxiing to stop w/ crew waiting; ladder to plane & pilot preparing to leave cockpit hands helmet to man on ladder. Capt. Butterfield walks across tarmac. 06:10:04 Front view of plane from camera being hoisted. Other static ground views. 06:10:33 POV along rubber marked runway pavement of plane taking off & banking. Aerial shots of plane. The End. 1955; Cold War; USA Military Aviation; General Dynamics Corporation; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Good color & sound. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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