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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250226-04
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1959
Country: Canada,United Kingdom
Location: Malton,Mississauga,Ontario
TC Begins: 00:29:31
TC Ends: 00:43:00
Duration: 00:13:29
Continued...Pt. 2 of 2 Engineers at electronic consoles in test control center. 00:30:13 LS Tethered flight tests of aircraft. 00:30:33 MS men working underneath w/ Avrocar supported by jacks under wheels. 00:30:47 Shot from pavement w/ aircraft slowly rising, wobbling, moving w/ guy wires attached. 00:32:00 Crane lifting / holding Avrocar; pilot at controls & rocking under own power. MCU technician working on tether chain. LS Avrocar lifting & moving though w/ cables linking to monitoring console. 00:32:53 CU of exhaust / directional thrust holes. 00:33:05 Avrocar mounted in jig, technicians working on it. High angle in jig. MS View from beneath of ring of exhaust air ducts around perimeter. LS men working beneath. Men working on jig & Avrocar; tested hanging in jig. 00:34:52 CU of riveted aluminum under-surface; upper surface. CU w/ man’s hand showing size of ducting for air-intake & exit. 00:35:34 Pilot in Avrocar w/ cables to monitoring console. Aircraft moving in tethered test flight. 00:36:25 MCU Technician reading console printout of horizontal view of tethered flight. Woman technician watching plotter print-out lateral movements. 00:37:06 MS Cockpit simulator with control console in bg. Man into seat; CU operating joystick. View of mechanisms responding to joy-stick. 00:38:00 Aircraft on tarmac w/ fire truck behind; pilot harnessed into craft & motor started by tractor. 00:38:38 12Nov59 Avrocar in free flight on ramp outside factory. Turning, skimming low, slowly moving back & forth in front of hanger doors. 00:42:07 MCU Technician adjusting ?? w/ wrench. Man at console w/ hearing protection headset testing model in wind tunnel. 00:42:55 End titles. Oddities; Testing Experimental Military Aviation; 1959; Dec59; Flying Saucers; Development; Developing; 1950s; NOTE: Includes footage of testing both Avrocar 1 & Avrocar2. NOTE: Any continuous 14 minutes of entire film 00:16:52 - 00:43:00 (2 cards) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: Film is mute at NARA.