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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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063986
Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.

Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063987
The new (circa 1951) GE jet engine plant at Lockland, Ohio. Engines being assembled. Various aircraft using GE engines

Views of the new (1951) GE jet engine assembly plant at Lockland Ohio. Animated description and U.S. map showing numerous suppliers across the country that contribute parts for the jet engines assembled at the GE Lockland plant.Views inside the plant, with engines being assembled. GE staff members, including chief engineer, Donald F. Warner, are seen in the plant. Various U.S. jet warplanes taking off, including: Hughes XF-91; North American F-86D Sabrejet ; Martin XB-51; North American B-45 Tornado; Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber; and Convair B-36.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063988
General Electric plant and operations at Lockland, Ohio. Advances in jet propulsion. Jet airplanes of the early 1950s.

Animated illustration of rapid improvements in GE jet engine designs. Views of the GE plant at Lockland, Ohio. Interior of a jet passenger liner airplane, as envisioned in 1951. View of flight attendant or stewardess in uniform, delivering tray of food to a passenger in the cabin of a passenger aircraft in flight. View of Dr. Sanford A. Moss, standing in front of the Collier Trophy, looking at his award certificate, in 1941. The trophy was awarded to him and the U.S. Army Air Corps for development of the aircraft engine supercharger. Discussion of Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Air Force, General Electric and Convair ideas about building an atomic powered airplane. Views of the GE gas turbine laboratory. Montage of jet aircraft of the early 1950s. Among those seen are: Convair SF-92 delta wing fighter plane; The Chase XCG-20A 4-engine cargo plane; North American F-86 sabrejet; Grumman F9F panther; F-89 Scorpion; and B-36 bomber, plus several unidentified experimental aircraft. Several scenes of B-47s in rocket assisted takeoffs.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063989
USAF B-52H in flight carrying GAM-77 cruise missile under its wing during a test flight in the United States.

Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. United States Air Force B-52H aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. The aircraft carries GAM-77 cruise missile under its wing during flight. The GAM-77 cruise missile releases from the B-52H aircraft.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063993
USAF B-52G in flight carrying GAM-87 ballistic missile under its wing during a test flight in the United States.

Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. GAM-87 missile mounted under the wing of United States Air Force B-52G aircraft. The Boeing crew loads the ballistic missile under the wing of the B-52G aircraft. The aircraft in flight with the ballistic missile.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063994
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