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Static test, number 1045, of XLR-11 engine for X-15. January 16, 1959, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1045 of XLR-11 engine for X-15, on January 16, 1959, at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Engine in test stand.

Date: 1959, January 16
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021337
Static test of XLR-11 engine for X-15. Test number 1051, February 2, 1959, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1051 of XLR-11 engine for X-15, on February 2, 1959 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Engine is in test stand.

Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021338
Static test of XLR-11 engine for X-15 on January 12, 1959, at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1043of XLR-11 engine for X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base on January12, 1959. Technician dressed in white protective gear, standing beside white truck at test stand. Heavy smoke and fumes are seen before engine develops power on test stand.

Date: 1959, January 12
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021341
Static test of XLR-11 engine for X-15. January 13, 1959. Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1044, of XLR-11 engine for X-15, January 13, 1959 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Heavy fumes fill area at startup of test and are dispelled as hot gases are generated by engine.

Date: 1959, January 13
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021342
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas

United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063424
Steel Strike of 1959 ends with announcement from Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.

WS building in Washington, D.C. , possibly the Department of Labor. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, steel industry chief negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, and Steelworkers Union leader David J. McDonald gathered at a table. James P. Mitchell announces settlement of the 116 day steel strike of 1959, which started on July 15, 1959 and ended with an October 21 court injunction which was upheld by the Supreme Court on November 7. Mitchell explains that a "recommendation for settlement" was made, but that his announcement was pending ratification. The three men shake hands after the announcement. The narrator explains that the pact has benefits "totaling some 39 cent an hour."

Date: 1960, January
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078297