Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. B-47 Stratojet and T-33 Shooting Star in flight. The downward ejection seat on the B-47 is jettisoned. Test subject descending. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. Three USAF (United States Air Force) planes B-47 Stratojet, F-94 Starfire and T-33 Shooting Star. Test subject and seat ejected from plane. Seat and test subject separates. Parachute opens and parachutist descends. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Parachute placed in an USAF (United states Air Foce) truck. Preparation prior to flight for human downward ejection test. Military men carry parachute from truck to plane. Parachute is installed in the ejection seat. Test subject in pink climbs up into the plane. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Human downward ejection subject with parachute descends. Parachutist lands in water. Parachutist in water. Parachutist on deck under supervision of other men. Someone hands him a cigarette, and men assist him in the removal of some of his clothing. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Several C-119J aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) take off in succession from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, on missions to develop and test capability to snag space capsules parachuting to earth from satellites in orbit. (Note: The mission of the 6593rd Test Squadron was to recover film capsules returning to earth from orbiting Corona photoreconnaissance satellites, during the 1960s. Their JC-119s had "beavertail" doors that could be opened in flight [unlike clamshell doors that had to be left behind for open-door operations in other C-119s]. All American Engineering Company installed the special recovery equipment in the squadron's aircraft. The 6593rd Squadron accomplished the first successful mid-air recovery of an object from an orbiting satellite, on 19 August 1960, when they captured a film capsule released in the Corona Discoverer 14 Satellite mission.)
C-119J of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) in flight for practice capsule recovery as part of the Discoverer program, near Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. C-119J in flight with pick-up gear lowered. Views of trapeze and aircraft snaring the practice space capsule. Military personnel working with winch equipment inside the C-119.
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