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USAF Fighter Jet Guided Missile Tests

Reel Number: 221050-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1956

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 21:00:34

TC Ends: 21:04:13

Duration: 00:03:39

USAF Fighter Jet Guided Missile Tests CU model rocket; aircraft on diagram. Rocket wheeled across tarmac on trolley & loaded under wing of USAF jet fighter plane - Northrop F-89 Scorpion ? Pilot into cockpit w/ mask & helmet. Brief shot of take off. LS bomber hit by rocket explodes blurry, camera follows as it plummets to ground w/ broken wing and breaks up; CU target screen. Rocket? in flight w/ vapour trail. Technicians in laboratory calibrating rocket on test stand. MCU loading missile onto plane. LS rocket hitting target plane - fierce explosion, plane crashes into desert / mountains. CU model of rocket. Cold War. Military Aviation. Nuclear ?

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