Aviation In The News
Aviation In The News
Clip: 362654_1_1
Year Shot: 1949
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1537
Original Film: 022-214-08
HD: N/A
Location: Point Mugu, California
Timecode: 00:52:16 - 00:53:17
Jumpy, grainy, dull in contrast and imagery - DOS Spectacular scenes of pilot less ramjet aircraft being tested by navy. Suspended beneath plane's wing, Gorgon IV is controlled from ground as it sets new endurance marks. Some great aerial shots. Plane Flies Faster Than Sound Believed to be the fastest plane in the world, the Air Force's XS-1 rocket plane makes a test flight in California. The sleek supersonic craft carries only a limited fuel supply, so is taken aloft in the modified bomb bay of a B29 and dropped o ut in mid air. Again int eh cockpit of the rocket plane is Captain Chuck Yeager, who has piloted every test since it was developed.