Location: California,Edwards Air Force Base,Rogers Lake Bed
TC Begins: 00:00:07
TC Ends: 00:08:59
Duration: 00:08:52
X-15 (1959) Pt. 1 of 3
Edwards Air Force Base, California (17Sep59)
B-52 taxiing w/ North American Aviation X-15 past camera for maiden flight. Scott Crossfield in cockpit, Al White, North American’s alternate pilot, into F-100F front cockpit to fly chase, Joe Walker NASA’s chief test pilot & Maj. Bob White into planes. Ground crews on lake bed. Sign: National Aeronautics and Space Administratin High Speed Flight Station. Engineers at equipment, computers, etc. CU pilots, control tower. Tower talk. Capt. Charles Bock in cochpit of NB-52A & take off over camera. Launch monitor watching TV monitor of X-15. View of B-52 from above & below; CU of X-15. CU of pilot, instruments.
00:04:24 Beginning of jettisoning w/ starting motor; CU hands, lights, dials, ground engineers. Countdown
00:05:14 X-15 drops and fires away. Views from chase planes. CU of Mach dial.
00:06:00 CU of radar dish. Views from below of contrail. View from plane.
00:06:48 X-15 & chase planes as glide return. Engineers at computers. View from above of lake bed landing area. Dropping parachute of ventral fin to ground.
00:08:35 X-15 landing & taxing on Rogers Dry Lake Bed. Past buildings.
NASA; Air Force; Experimental Test Flights
Continued on Pt. 2 of 3
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X-15 (1959) Pt. 1 of 3 Edwards Air Force Base, California (17Sep59) B-52 taxiing w/ North American Aviation X-15 past camera for maiden flight. Scott Crossfield in cockpit, Al White, North American’s alternate pilot, into F-100F front cockpit to fly chase, Joe Walker NASA’s chief test pilot & Maj. Bob White into planes. Ground crews on lake bed. Sign: National Aeronautics and Space Administratin High Speed Flight Station. Engineers at equipment, computers, etc. CU pilots, control tower. Tower talk. Capt. Charles Bock in cochpit of NB-52A & take off over camera. Launch monitor watching TV monitor of X-15. View of B-52 from above & below; CU of X-15. CU of pilot, instruments. 00:04:24 Beginning of jettisoning w/ starting motor; CU hands, lights, dials, ground engineers. Countdown 00:05:14 X-15 drops and fires away. Views from chase planes. CU of Mach dial. 00:06:00 CU of radar dish. Views from below of contrail. View from plane. 00:06:48 X-15 & chase planes as glide return. Engineers at computers. View from above of lake bed landing area. Dropping parachute of ventral fin to ground. 00:08:35 X-15 landing & taxing on Rogers Dry Lake Bed. Past buildings. NASA; Air Force; Experimental Test Flights Continued on Pt. 2 of 3