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Design On The Future: Profile - AF Flight Dynamics Laboratory Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 250053-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: Arnold Engineering Development Center,dayton,Ohio,patterson aFb,Tennessee,wright

TC Begins: 08:19:27

TC Ends: 08:32:07

Duration: 00:12:40

Titles. Pt. 1 of 2 08:20:19 Airman walking into Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory main entrance. Int. airman looking at display of aircraft models. Civilian instructor w/ overhead projector pointing to projected image: benefits/capability. 08:21:03 Engineer at electronics console w/ video display; CU testing wheels, braking. Draftman working on drawing. TACT plane in flight above clouds. Cross section of wing demonstrating changing of wing contours in flight. Wind tunnel model of F111 / AFTI 111. Airman demonstrating wing shape changes on cross section. 08:23:00 Drawings & models of planes showing various exhaust nozzels. CU men looking at models & talking. 08:23:53 Dogfighting jets, looping, in sights. Instruments showing planes in flight. 08:24:30 British Harrier Siddeley V/STOL landing via thrust vectoring. Short take off & steep climb by jet w/ thrust vectoring; CU landing thru thrust reversal. 08:25:34 Models of airplanes in wind tunnel testing. Visual printout of computer analysis of aerodynamics. 08:26:43 Model airplane of XBQM 106, small drone teleplane, w/ man using remote controls as it takes off & flies. Towed behind van. Man building w/ fiberglass & other non-metallic materials. CU of man steering, plane banks & turns. Descends w/ warhead & explodes on target in fireball. 08:28:07 Testing of unconventional high speed jet fighter interceptor in wind tunnel at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tennessee; men looking at streamline models; model in wind chamber. 08:30:15 Advanced structural concept, materials & criteria. Testing in wind tunnel. Engineers looking at computer printouts. Cross section of model; computer graphics & woman working at keyboard changing design on screen / monitor. Uses light pen change design. Continued... USAF Testing Programs; Military Contracting; 1970s; 1980s; Oddities; Inventions; NOTE: XBQM 106 began in 1975, ended in 1986. NOTE: Any continuous 13 minutes of film sold for per reel rate.

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