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NB-52A Stratofortress carrying X-15 under its wing taxis and takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Speed and Altitude tests conducted by X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress takes off from the runway with X-15 under its wing. Pilot Scott Crossfield seated in the cockpit of X-15. Captain Charles Bock and co-pilot Captain Allavie get into the U.S. Air Force NB-52A Stratofortress cockpit. Ambulances and vehicles near the aircraft. 'National Aeronautics and Space Administration' written on the building. NASA technicians check graphs and radar and monitor each movement of the flight. The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway with X-15 under its wing. Pilot checks controls seated in the cockpit. Pilots coordinate with the ground staff. U.S. Air Force F-100F, F-100C and F-104D aircraft in flight next to Boeing NB-52A. X-15 release from NB-52A Stratofortress.

Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063960
Reenactment shows early 20th century U.S. research in gas turbines that contributed to development of turbojet airplane engine

Views of Cornell University where mechanical engineer, Stanford Moss, conducted research into gas turbines as part of his doctoral thesis work in 1903. Dr. Moss later joined the staff of General Electric Company. During World War I Dr. Moss is called to Washington DC to discuss, with the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), development of a turbo supercharger for airplane engines. View of a biplane with turbo supercharger mounted on top of radial engine. Animated diagram illustrating workings of a turbo supercharger. Using a supercharged engine, the U.S. Army Air Services established an altitude record of 36 thousand feet. (The pilot, flying without supplemental oxygen, passes out and doesn't regain consciousness until the airplane has fallen about 30 thousand feet.)

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063981
How turbo superchargers facilitate high altitude airplane flight. World War II warplanes equipped with superchargers

General Billy Mitchell wearing fur coat and western style hat. Animated illustration of U.S. Army Martin bomber operating at 15 thousand feet during the famous demonstrations of air power against battleships, in 1921. This was possible because the aircraft engines were supercharged, an outgrowth of Dr. Sanford Moss's developments at General Electric Company.World War 2 scenes of U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft that use supercharged engines: P-51s; P-47s; P-38s; B-24s; B-17s and B-29s. View of atomic bomb explosion.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063982
General Electric producing the first American jet airplane engine. Bell Aircraft building first U.S. jet powered airplane.

General Electric Company engineers work on designs for America's first jet aircraft engine during World War 2. In the company's plant, at Lynn, Massachusetts, machinists make parts for the engine and others assemble it. Company executives conversing about the enterprise. On April 18, 1942, the first engine produced is rolled into a test cell for operational testing. Engineers pull down the door to the test cell displaying the words: "Fort Knox." Engineers at control panel of the test cell. View into the test cell. GE Project manager, Donald F. Warner, actuates toggle switch to "on" position, and the engine ignites. Flame seen in rear of the engine. Complete change of location. View of Bell Aircraft company buildings. Bell engineers working on design of an airplane designated, XP-59A (Airacomet) to be powered by the new General Electric jet engine (later designated J-31 by the military). Views of the Bell engineering and production activities at secret facilities in Buffalo, New York. Two Bell workers expressing reservations about airplanes without propellers. A main intersection street scene in Schenectady, New York. Pedestrians walking and shopping. An F.W. Woolworth store on the corner. Copy of the Schenectady Gazette Newspaper, with headline about 500 planes raiding Berlin. A man buying a copy of the paper.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063984
First flight of Bell YP-59A aircraft. GE develops J-33 jet engine. First flight of Lockheed P-80 jet fighter.

Official films of the flight of Bell YP-59A Airacomet jet-powered airplane, October 1, 1942. Workers at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, producing versions of increasingly more powerful jet engines: the I-16 with 1600 pounds of thrust and the J-33, with 4000 pounds of thrust. First flight, January 8, 1944, of a Lockheed P-80 shooting star fighter jet powered by the J-33 engine. Formation of P-80 fighter planes in flight.

Date: 1942, October 1
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063985
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star; Douglas D-558 skystreak; Republic F-84; Northrop flying wing and XFD-1 Navy Phantom jet aircraft.

General Electric company sharing its J-33 jet engine design with other manufacturers such as Allison engine manufacturer who also build them for Lockheed P-80 shooting star airplanes. Animated illustrations of the J-33 centrifigal compresser contrasted to the axial flow compressor of the J-35 engine. View of straight wing Republic F-84 thunderbolt powered by the J-35 engine. View of Douglas Skystreak airplane. View of Northrop Flying wing airplane powered by 8 J-35 engines. McDonnell Douglas FH-1 phantom jet airplane operating on an aircraft carrier. Classroom where General Electric personnel are being trained to service and support organizations using GE jet aircraft engines.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063986