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NASA B-52 taxis out for takeoff, carrying an X-15 rocket plane under its right wing

NASA NB-52A aircraft, tail number 52-003, parked at Edwards Air Force Base, with an X-15 rocket plane cradled under its right wing. Two men run across the ramp to the aircraft. One carries a ladder. The B-52 taxis out. View through windshield of a vehicle following the B-52 as it taxis.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021366
Technicians examine X-15, after unsuccessful mission at Edwards Air Force Base, California

NASA X-15 parked on Rogers Dry Lake runway after landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, immediately after an unsuccessful mission due to problems involving liquid oxygen tank pressure fluctuations. View from the rear, showing the twin vertical mounted rocket engines. Vehicles surround the aircraft and technicians work around it. Closeup of main gear skids and underbelly. View of auxiliary wheels to be attacked to main gear. (This is the number two X-15, tail number 56-6671.)

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 4
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021367
Images recorded on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 Rocket Plane, at Edwards Air Force Base, California

The first successful powered flight of the X-15 Rocket Plane. Contrails at high altitude above, are seen, generated by the X-15 Rocket plane, 56-6671, and three chase planes. Scene shifts to view from a camera vehicle speeding across the Rogers Dry Lake bed towards the X-15 already landed on a runway. The three chase planes breaking away in background. Two Piasecki H-21 helicopters hovering low over the runway as the X-15 is obscured by dust it raised during its landing. The X-15 becomes visible as the dust settles. Officials step from a staff car that just arrived. The X-15 silhouetted with sunlight reflected on its top. Officials approach and surround the cockpit. One climbs upon the aircraft nose and helps open the cockpit canopy. Pilot, Scott Crossfield seen in the cockpit. Fire trucks and Air Force officers arrive. Firefighters direct a stream of cooling liquid at the rocket motors and rear of the X-15. Scott Crossfield, still in the cockpit, converses with officers and officials. Closeup of Crossfield in the cockpit. Technicians begin examining the exterior of the aircraft.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021368
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.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021369
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.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021370
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.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, August 28
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021378
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