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A nuclear explosion test on houses and mannequins during Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada,United States.

Footage from Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada. The test conducted to examine the effects of a nuclear bomb explosion on buildings and houses. A man walks inside a house and dummy or mannequin cars parked in front of the house during setup for the experiement. Next scene shows view from cameras as the house explodes from atomic bomb blast wave or shock wave, with fragments flying in the air. Exterior view as blast wave hits house. The impact of the explosion on the house. The impact on dummies and furniture inside the house as seen from an interior camera when the shock wave hits and windows blow in.

Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063886
A nuclear bomb test on houses and cars during Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada,United States.

Operation Cue United States military nuclear testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic bomb explosion on buildings and houses. Dummy cars parked outside houses. Two cars drive up in front of a house. The houses explodes after the nuclear bomb detonates. Shows the impact of the explosion on the houses and cars.

Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063891
A nuclear blast test on a tin roof house during Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada,United States.

Operation Cue footage, with nuclear bomb testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic bomb explosion on buildings and houses. A house with tin roof. A car drives in front of the house. The house explodes with house fragments in the air. The impact of the explosion on the house.

Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063892
Activity in the control room and Bell X-2 in flight along with chase planes at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Official marks on the telemetry recording paper with lines on it. He turns the dial on front of the telemetry recording instrument. Woman types on a typing machine. Print on paper read 'Air Force Lt Col. Frank K Pete Everest flew Bell X-2 research rocket plane 1900 miles per hour last week, nudging close to three times the speed of sound'. U.S. Air Force B-47 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-104 A Aircraft in flight. Three F-1004 aircraft in flight. U.S. Air Force F-84F aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. U.S. Air Force Bell X-1 parked on ground. Pilot gets into cockpit of Bell X-1A aircraft. Bell X-2 on static thrust as engine is fired during a test.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063978
Demonstration of rocket belt flight by pilot Harold Graham at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia

Bell Aerosystems Test Pilot Harold Graham demonstrates Rocket Belt Flight backpack (Small Rocket Lifting Device, SRLD) on grounds of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Man removes cover from the device kept on a table. Military personnel, Pentagon workers, and civilians gathered to watch the flight. Fire brigade along the flight area. Men, women and children stand behind barricaded area. Assistants strap Bell Aerosystems test pilot Harold Graham to the rocket belt flight device. He wears the rocket pack (some might call it a jet pack) on his back like a backpack and grips control handles that extend around to the front from the sides. He takes off from the ground. Two men dressed in traditional American colonial military costumes stand beside the pilot. Photographers take pictures.

Date: 1961, June 16
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063979
Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.

Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063987