Germany invades Poland. The animated map shows Warsaw and Modlin in Poland. Bomb craters on fields. Damaged building in the city. Smoke rises from bombed areas. A wrecked train and water in a bomb crater. A broken bridge. Destroyed Polish aircraft at an air base in Warsaw.
Speed and altitude tests being conducted by X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. X-15 begins a solo flight into the stratosphere. Pilot Scott Crossfield seated in the cockpit of X-15. Mach meter indicator passes Mach two. Radar dish antenna recording the course of flight. Chase planes F-100F and F-104D in flight. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) officials take recordings on graph and look at radar screens. Pilot converses with the ground crew members. X-15 lands on Rogers Dry Lake in California. Vehicles parked next to the aircraft after its landing in ground.
Sled tests conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California. North American test Pilot Al White dons X-15 pressure and space suit. Wind blast tests being conducted on rocket sled with the help of a dummy. Rocket sled run with dummy wearing an X-15 space suit testing the ejection escape system. Dummy inside X-15 nose section during another test. Pilot jumps with a parachute in case of an emergency. Fabrication and assembling of X-15 at North American Aviation Company. Technicians operate control panel. Engineers check the aircraft parts at the center. Pilot Scott Crossfield undergoes g-force training seated inside whirling centrifuge. (Early in NASA space program)
Roll out ceremony of American X-15 aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. United States Vice President Richard Nixon gives a speech during roll out ceremony of X-15. American X-15 comes out of the hangar. Photographers take pictures. Pilot wearing space suit gets into the cockpit of the aircraft. Technicians and engineers check the aircraft and take readings on instruments.
United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Bell X-2 being pulled out of the hangar. The aircraft towed by a vehicle. Ground crew members seated on Bell X-2's wings. Crew members test fire on static thrust stand. Officer covers his ears during test firing. Man seated in the cockpit of Bell X-2 while another crew member reads from a book in his hand. Ground crew fuels the aircraft.
Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A dummy strapped on a rocket sled in spinal position 90 degrees. A doctor inspects the dummy after a test. The head of the dummy comes out during the test. Technicians check the rocket sled.
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