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United States Bell X-2 in flight piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Two ground crew members operate theodolite tracking camera with a radar in the background. Telemetry equipment in operation. Men look through binoculars. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest seated in the cockpit with his hands on the controls. U.S. Air Force Bell X-2 release from U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress and begins a solo flight. Radar tracks the flight course. U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre and T-33 aircraft fly along Bell X-2. Bell X-2 aircraft lands on Rogers Dry Lake Bed. Ambulance, fire brigade and other vehicles next to the aircraft. Pilot removes his helmet and comes out of the aircraft.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063977
Crash of U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre aircraft, at dusk, Edwards Air Force Base, California

During period of semidarkness, at dusk, blinking red lights are seen. Then an aircraft is silhouetted low over the runway. It proceeds slowly, only a few feet above the runway, and then crashes in a spectacular ball of flames, followed by a huge cloud of black smoke. (Note: The aircraft, an F-100 Supersabre was being ferried from Palmdale, California, when the pilot elected to make an emergency landing at Edwards AFB.)

Date: 1956, January 10
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045361
Major Robert M. White pilots an X-15 rocket plane to nearly 25 miles over Edwards Air Force Base in California.

A rocket plane reaches the highest altitude in California, United States. Jeeps and other vehicles on a street. United States Air Force Major General Robert M. White pilots the X-15 rocket plane to the highest altitude. He flies the plane nearly 25 miles over Edwards Air Force Base, California. The plane is parked on an airfield. Men gather near the plane and meet the pilot.

Date: 1960, August 15
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061722
Astronaut Scott Carpenter seated in the jet cockpit during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

NASA Mercury Astronauts during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Astronaut Scott Carpenter seated inside a jet cockpit. Aircraft in flight over Edwards Air Force Base.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023331
An astronaut sits in a jet cockpit during weightlessness training while at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

NASA Project Mercury Astronauts during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Astronaut, possibly Alan Shepard, seated inside a jet cockpit. Aircraft in flight over Edwards Air Force Base.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023333
Astronaut Virgil Grissom seated in jet cockpit during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

NASA Project Mercury Astronauts during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Virgil ("Gus") Grissom seated inside a jet cockpit. Aircraft in flight over Edwards Air Force Base. He eats by squeezing food from a tube.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023334