Flying Test Bed
Flying Test Bed
Clip: 355651_1_1
Year Shot: 1958
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1649
Original Film: 031-050-04
HD: N/A
Location: Torrance, California
Timecode: 00:10:48 - 00:11:32
In California, first tests of an army-sponsored craft that can rotate its propellers to vertical position for an upright takeoff. A very strange looking un-completed air craft. CUS - The control panel. MCUS - The plane is tied down and two technicians are holding it while there's a technician at the controls of the test bed. CUS - The engines of the test bed. MS - All the technicians well satisfied by the running operations of the test bed plane,