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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250053-03
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1970s
Country: USA
Location: Arnold Engineering Development Center,dayton,Ohio,patterson aFb,Tennessee,wright
TC Begins: 08:32:07
TC Ends: 08:44:42
Duration: 00:12:35
Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Man fabricating & testing parts of system. 08:32:22 High angle exterior of structural test facility. View inside testing A10 Thunderbolt 2 failure. Gantry crane moving large component of air frame. Pictures & illustrations. 08:33:39 Fighter jet does roll during Flight Control Division testing. Flight simulation testing cockpit controls. Large room of main frame analog & digital computer system. Men & women working; threading tapes, playing back & testing, simulated. 08:34:45 Cut-away of building model showing LAMARS, Large Amplitude Multi Mode Aerospace Research Simulator, at Wright-Patterson AFB. View of visual display system & exterior view of simulator & monitors. 08:36:03 Fighter taking off; model illustrating possibilities. 08:36:33 Air to air of CCV YF-16 in flight along side another plane. Modified NC131 TIFS w/ vertical plates on wings. Fighter jet performing roll; another landing w/ drag chute. F16 cockpit & description of fly-by-wire system w/ flashing lights. 08:38:01 Plane, Digitac, on runway hooked up to digital testing equipment, MCU of console w/ man keying in instructions. A7D plane taxiing; in flight. 08:38:49 Repeat images in summary. Engineers looking at aircraft tires resulting from testing. Tire on dynamometer & viewing on television monitor. Testing w/ smoke when tire hits dynamometer wheel. 08:40:43 Seagull in flight; damaged cockpit. Men testing windshield. Jet taking off. 08:41:29 USAF & Canadian cushioned landing system demonstrated w/ de Havilland Buffalo DHC-5 twin-engine plane on large rubber cushion. ACLS Air Cushion Landing System. Plane taxiing on various surfaces; aerial from above of taking off. Air to air shown of inflating & deflating while in flight. Landing from alongside. 08:43:13 High angle of Aircraft Survivability Research Facility; man outside walking past large fans; engineers at consoles. Explosion & flames during testing ballistic vulnerability of aircraft. 08:43:54 Summary images of aspects of Flight Dynamic Laboratory. USAF Testing Programs; Military Contracting; 1970s; 1980s; Oddities; Inventions; NOTE: YF-16/CCV flew between 16Mar76 & 31Jun77. DHC-5 w/ ACLS was tested 11Apr75 to 30Apr79. NOTE: Any continuous 13 minutes of film sold for per reel rate.