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Rocket powered aircraft X-15A in flight, lands and taxis at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Test flight of rocket powered aircraft X-15A at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A helicopter in flight. X -15A in flight. X-15A in a position to land. X-15A leaves a smoky trail. X-15A lands and taxis.

Date: 1967, October 3
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021313
Major William J Knight inside the cockpit of rocket powered aircraft X-15A takes off at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Test flight of rocket powered aircraft X-15A at Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15A taxis. Major Williams J Knight inside a cockpit of X-15A. Pilot comes out. Pilot with other NASA officers. Smoky trail left by X-15A. Men stand around X-15A. Pilot with officer. Newsman takes interview of pilot. A man at the back refuels X-15A. Landing of X-15A. Ground men near the cockpit. Pilot comes out. A ladder next to the cockpit. Officers and other people around X-15A. X-15A leaves a smoky trail. Officers and other people near a van. X-15A in flight.

Date: 1967, October 3
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021315
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. Rocket sled experience. Zero-gravity maneuvers in F-104 aircraft. Zero-gravity maneuvers in large aircraft.

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