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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250202-03
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1960s
Country: USA
Location: California,Edwards AFB
TC Begins: 00:35:24
TC Ends: 01:00:22
Duration: 00:24:58
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1960s - Color, Experimental Aircraft: X15A-2 Flight, POV & from B-52 & Chase Plane of Launching POV to rear above clouds w/ contrail, chase plane alongside quickly falling behind. GOOD 00:37:08 POV w/ scattered clouds & deep blue sky, earth below as plane climbs. Black sky. 00:39:12 View from behind plane under B-52 wing, engines start, plane drops away & seen moving fast far ahead, climbing leaving contrail. 00:41:05 B-52 on ground w/ X-15A mounted, taxiis away followed by fire trucks & helicopter. Takes off over camera, heavy black exhaust smoke. 00:45:53 Aerial from alongside B-52 & beneath X-15A. Landing w/ X-15A under wing. 00:50:15 Leader. 00:50:23 Slate: 25Aug65. Camera: Montgomery. X-15A-1, No. 66670 landing, on dry lake bed w/ people around plane, pilot out & walking, MLS shaking hands w/ military beside van. 00:51:27 Black 00:51:33 X-15A mounted beneath B-52 wing; pilot in pressure suit to plane & helped into X-15A. 00:51:58 LS B-52 w/ X-15A-1 taking off. 00:52:28 Black 00:52:35 B-52 from chase plane below; alongside & X-15A-1 firing engine, dropping down & quickly taking off w/ contrail & climbing out of sight against black sky. GOOD. 00:54:31 CU of rear of X-15A-1 under wing from B-52. Suddenly falls away & contrail seen going out of sight. 00:56:04 Slate: X-15 #760 (Chase I) 24Oct68. Camera Baskin . B-52 w/ X-15A-1 under wing from alongside & beneath. 00:58:57 CU engine firing; X-15A climbing away seen from cockpit of chase plane. Supersonic Experimental Aircraft; Astronaut Training; USAF Space Flight; NASA; NOTE: Entire card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: X-15A first flight was 08Jun59, retired Dec70. It was a rocket-powered aircraft flown by 8 pilots, setting speed & altitude records in early 1960s. It holds record for fastest speed by manned aircraft. Maximum was 4,520 mph; it exceeded 50 mile altitude. Pilots were Michael J. Adams; Neil Armstrong; Scott Crossfield; William Dana; Joe Engle; William / Pete Knight; John McKay; Forrest Petersen; Robert Rushworth; Milt Thompson; Joseph Walker; & Robert White. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk