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Preparing for X-15 flight. Flight Simulators. Pressure suit testing. Rocket sled test of cockpit escape mechanism

Technician operates X-15 Flight simulator. Technician in cockpit of partial aircraft testing pump drain.Pilot enters large simulator mounted on moving apparatus, outdoors. Test pilot Scott Crossfield, in pressure flight suit, closes visor of his helmet and undergoes testing in low pressure chamber altitude simulator. Dummy testing of cockpit escape mechanism on rocket sled.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021322
Subjecting pilot to high G forces in centrifuge.

Pilot wearing flight suit enters and sits down in centrifuge capsule.Technicians and engineers inside control room. A technician seated at an operating position. One man holds microphone and turns dial to start up the centrifuge Views of pilot wearing oxygen mask and helmet, inside centrifuge capsule, as it revolves at higher speeds.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021323
First free flight of X-15. NB-52B Stratofortress with X-15 suspended under its wing. X-15 launches and glides to landing

Test Pilot Scott Crossfield climbs into cockpit of X-15, as spectators are assembled to witness its first free flight. A NB-52B Stratofortress taxis and takes off with the rocket powered X-15 under its wing. X-15 detaches from the B-52, and drops towards the earth as Crossfield tests its behavior in flight. View of X-15 nose wheel turning during landing. 'North American Aviation Inc' stenciled on fuselage. The X-15 exhibits an extreme high pitch angle as it comes in for a successful landing on the Rogers Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021324
Static test of XLR-11 engine for X-15. Jet flame comes out of engine on test stand at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1045 of XLR-11 engine at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Intense flame from engine in test stand highlighted against darkness of evening.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, January 16
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021344
An X-15 Rocket plane landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California

View of a North American X-15 landing on a Rogers dry lake bed runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The camera follows the X-15 as it approaches in nose-high attitude and shows ground contact of its main skids and of its nose gear as it is lowered. The camera continues tracking the X-15 along the runway until it comes to a stop.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021360
NASA B-52 landing at Edwards Air Force Base

NASA B-52 (NB-52A, 52-003) landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, following an unsuccessful X-15 launch mission. (The liquid oxygen tank pressure fluxuated due to a vent leak.) The B-52 makes a routine landing, deploying its drag chute on the ground roll.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 4
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021361
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