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Post-landing activities following first powered flight of X-15. Grounding cables are attached to airframe. Firemen hose area.
Post flight activities, at Edwards Air Force , involving the X-15, 56-6671, following its first-ever powered flight of an X-5 rocket plane. Cylinder with pressure gauges seen on sand. Technicians secure ground wires to the aircraft. One talks to test pilot Scott Crossfield, who is still in cockpit. Technicians examine nose gear. Some gather around rear of X-15. Fire Truck stands by. Test pilot Scott Crossfield leaves cockpit and accompanies civilian official to waiting car. Firemen hose down area around the X-15. Car carrying Crossfield drives away with white flag affixed to it. Ground crews prepare to tow the X-15.
Images recorded from chase plane during the first powered flight of an X-15 Rocket Plane, at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Photograpy from an airborne chase plane, on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 rocket plane. A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane seen flying in the contrails of the NASA B-52 mothership (NB-52A,52-003) flown by pilots Bock and Allovie, An F-100D fighter flies slightly ahead of the B-52. The X-15, 56-6671, with Scott Crossfield, in the cockpit, is cradled under the B-52's right wing. View from the photo chase plane, as it pulls closer to the B-52. The X-15 and leading F-100 chase plane are clearly visible. The camera plane has dropped back and the X-15 releases, from the B-52 mothership, as its rocket engines simultaneously ignite. It drops and accelerates below and in front of the B-52. It stays below momentarily, without leaving a contrail. Then it accelerates and climbs rapidly out of sight. Sunlight glares as two chase planes are seen.
Test of XLR-99 engine at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Test of XLR-99 engine. XLR-99 engine at test area. The engine is hanged on engine stand. Flames come out from the exhaust cone. Flame stops as the engine runs and smoke comes out.
XLR-99 engine on engine stand, it runs and smoke comes out from the exhaust cone during a test at Edwards Air Force Base.
Test of XLR-99 engine. XLR-99 engine at test area. Fire comes out of XLR-99 engine exhaust. Blaze dies down from X-15 exhaust as vapor or smoke rises up from bottom of engine stand. XLR-99 exhaust cone. Smoke comes pouring out under the cone. Engine fires flame shoot out of the cone and dies out. As engine runs the flame varies its distance at different thrust. Flame is thrown way out and then dies out. Later the smoke comes rolling from counter frame. A puff of smoke pours out of exhaust cone.
Second run of XLR-99 engine and men examine the engine during a test at Edwards Air Force Base in California
Second run of XLR-99 engine. XLR-99 engine sits on test block in firing area. Engine vapor comes out from exhaust cone. Two men work on engine. Exhaust comes out of cone and dies out. Vapor comes again and dies down. A man towards the engine examines cone. Men examine engine. Exhaust from exhaust cone comes out. Men work around XLR-99 engine.
X-15 in flight and lands on a dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. B-52 Stratofortress with chase planes in flight. Contrails left out by the planes. X-15 in flight and climbs up. Contrails left out by the X-15. A chase plane behind it. The chase plane flies above and over X-15. X-15 flies over mountains. It lands on a dry lake bed and taxis. An unidentified plane taxis in background.
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