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Close-up views and still photos of faces of various Americans in the early 1900s

Ordinary people, immigrants, and citizens of the United States in the early 1900s. An old woman, a man with a hat, a man with a cigar in his mouth. His son reads a book. A farmer with his wife. A woman in her traditional dress and a father with his daughter on a chair. Credits for the documentary.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021238
X-15 on ground. Bell X-1 mach 1, October 14, 1947. The X-1D, nose wheel collapse, July 24, 1951

The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021319
North American Aviation engineers. X-15 research design and testing

" X-15 Research Airplane Request for Bids" issued by the U.S. Air Force Air Materiel Command, Washington, DC. Documents labeled 'Confidential Information'. Cover of another document reads: "North American Aviation Inc." View of North American aircraft design engineers at work designing and drawing sketches of landing gear, fuel system, hydraulics, surface control and study it. A sketch of X-15. Wind tunnel tests. Sketches of various aircraft designs. Vehicles outside North American Aviation Inc. A sign reads 'SABRE JET'. A sign reads 'Unauthorized personnel Keep Out' and 'Closed Area Admittance by Authorization Only'. Engine testing. Airframe fabrication. More wind tunnel tests.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021320
Preparing test pilots for X-15. Rocket sled. Zero-gravity maneuvers.

Aircraft fabrication. Two technicians working on a new jet aircraft. Rocket sled experience shown with a human test subject strapped on a rocket sled. View of the airman during the test as his body encounters g-forces. Next scene shows zero-gravity maneuvers in F-104 aircraft with pilot opening a drink container and liquid rising out upward and seen loose in the cockpit. Zero-gravity maneuvers in a zero gravity chamber, with two astronauts or pilots conducting weighlessness experiments while a technician observes.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021321
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.

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.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021323