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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250146-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950
Country: USA
Location: dayton,Ohio,patterson aFb,wright
TC Begins: 05:11:06
TC Ends: 05:20:25
Duration: 00:09:19
NOTE: May combine w/ other continuous short rolls for total of up to 10 minutes at per reel rate. Wind Tunnel Testing, 1950 R1 of 2 Titles. 05:11:49 Montage: Firing of two-stage RTV missile. MCU aerial of Bell X-1 / XS-1 rolling & down; ELS of contrail or smoke. F-86F overhead; XB-47 overhead. Matador TM-61A launched. XF-91 in flight. MCU low angle, pan right w/ YB-49 in flight. XB-51 in flight. Many B-36 in flight. 05:12:33 Aerial over horizontal & vertical wind tunnels at Wright-Patterson AFB. MS & CU of horizontal wind tunnel. MCU of the vertical wind tunnel. 05:13:05 Illustration of air currents over tethered balloon; wing w/ air deflection seen. 05:13:38 1903 Wright brothers airplane overhead. 05:13:45 CU shaft & other mechanisms operating an open circuit wind tunnel in 1917. 258' Two CU's of a six-inch propeller blade being tested in the 1917 wind tunnel. 05:14:19 Engineers working at desks & drafting table. 05:14:45 Horizontal wind tunnel at Wright-Patterson AFB. Man w/ pointer in front of illustration of wind tunnel. 05:16:01 CU aircraft model attached to side of the tunnel throat. MS tunnel operator in front of meters. Shots of effect of battle damage on F-80 engine; fire damage & control on F-84; & model of a guided missile. CU's of fire from models of high velocity aircraft. 05:17:03 Floor at mouth of five-foot open circuit tunnel at Wright-Patterson AFB. CU's of side of the five-foot tunnel & the two motors that operate it. 05:17:42 Man picks up model of XB-47B. CU of motor driving blower in the five-foot tunnel. 05:18:11 MS of exterior of 12-foot vertical wind tunnel. Man at drawing of cut-away chart of vertical wind tunnel explains its operation, SOF. 05:19:07 MS man weighing model aircraft in the Research Fabrication Laboratory. CU's of model & ECU of the control mechanism inside. MS of model spinning inside wind tunnel. MCU film cameramen taking shots of model. 05:20:01 MCU project engineers looking at film of the model. 05:20:15 High angle of F-82 aircraft spinning. USA Military Aviation Testing; 1950; NOTE: May combine w/ other continuous short rolls for total of up to 10 minutes at per reel rate.